Asked last week what the biggest sticking points were in the ongoing negotiations over the partisan budget reconciliation bill, Rep. Ro Khanna, a member of the progressive caucus, texted ABC News one word. 'Climate.'
last month, Manchin expressed his support for many, if not all, of the social programs outlined in the current budget proposal, but when pressed on the climate and carbon emissions proposal he said,"The [energy] transition is happening. Now they're wanting to pay companies to do what they're already doing. Makes no sense to me at all for us to take billions of dollars and pay utilities for what they're going to do as the market transitions.
In a document obtained by ABC News showing negotiations on the budget from over the summer, Manchin also listed that he was not in favor of cutting subsidies for fossil fuels if energy companies were going to be given tax credits for the production of renewable energies.In this Sept. 17, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during a conference call on climate change with the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.
The president’s initial proposals for large-scale government spending to foster renewable energy production were scrapped and scaled back to pass the bipartisan infrastructure deal in the Senate in early August. Progressives were told at the time that many of the ideas would be salvaged and included in the partisan budget reconciliation package.
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