Joe Manchin is wrecking the Senate climate change bill

Congress has spent months trying to cobble together a spending package that tackles the majority of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda in one go. As centrists have demanded that Biden and progressives lower the price tag of the reconciliation bill, the media, including me, have often been too focused on the $3.5 trillion price tag. This in turn has been to the detriment of the popular policies in it.

To make amends, for each of the next several days, I’ll dive into an aspect of the bill and what the state of...