Joe Manchin’s Save MVP Bill is Crashing & Burning, Rs & Ds Oppose

It appears that Sen. Joe Manchin's "save MVP bill" (otherwise known as the permitting reform bill) is crashing and burning. No official language or text of the bill has been released. Yet. Why is that? Manchin extracted a promise from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that a bill to finish up Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and streamline permitting for future pipeline projects would be brought to a vote and passed--IF old Joe voted in favor of the horrible Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a bill (now law) that damages the fossil fuel industry. Joe got rolled. He voted to pass the IRA, and now more than one-third of House Democrats and at least one Senate Democrat (crazy Bernie Sanders) have pledged to vote against Manchin's bill, leaving him high and dry with nothing to show for his sellout on IRA. So Manchin turned to Republicans to save his tattered reputation--and they aren't having it. Republicans refuse to reward Manchin's sellout. Manchin calls it "revenge politics." We call it eating the excrement sandwich you prepared for yourself, Joe.

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