Biden aides are trying to agree to Manchin’s demands where they can to avoid antagonizing him, while still advancing a climate agenda that he strongly opposes.
of the agency’s efforts to write regulations that more fully consider climate impact when it reviews new natural gas infrastructure.The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Manchin refused to hold a confirmation hearing for the reappointment of Richard Glick, the agency’s chair and a key ally of President Biden, after Glick’s term expired at the end of the year.
It took more than a year of painstaking negotiations, marked by bitter and personal rifts, for Manchin and Biden to agree on the Inflation Reduction Act. But rather than ending the tensions between the president and his party’s most conservative senator, the law has yielded new disagreements. “As much as they and the Democratic caucus are befuddled and frustrated and want to hit back at him sometimes, the reality is they know they still need him,” said Jim Manley, who was a top aide to Harry M. Reid , the former Senate majority leader.
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