Manchin: Biden violates inflation reduction bill by falsely presenting it as ‘green bill’

On CNN This Morning Thursday, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) accused the Biden administration of trying to “reconfigure” the Inflation Reduction Act “into something that … was not in that legislation,” and said the administration ” Failure to comply with a piece of legislation called the Inflation Reduction Act. They advertised it as “strong environmental law” when it wasn’t.

Manchin stated that his opposition to the appointment of Daniel Werfel as IRS Commissioner “was a message I send because the president and his administration [are] non-compliance with a piece of legislation called the Inflation Reduction Act. They advertised it as a strictly environmental bill and I can assure you that we drafted it and negotiated it after we drafted it… it was related to energy security. Oh my god when you saw Putin did what he did with energy and you know what’s going on with our friends in the EU and Europe and around the world and then basically failing to produce the energy we have under feet in our great country and we ask other countries like Iran and Venezuela, the biggest supporters of terrorists in the world, Iran, do you want them to have more money to create more chaos for humanity? I just… I was shocked. And I [said], we must do more and be safer in our state – in our country, so that we can help our allies if they start looking for energy elsewhere. Everything they put forward is relaxing, and I just said, you’re trying to basically reconfigure the legislation that we passed, that we passed in Congress, into something that you want that was not in that legislation. . So I’m holding their feet and will send – keep sending all the messages I can, please adapt and enforce energy security legislation.”

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