Democrats are facing heightened inter-party disputes with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) over a backroom deal that helped win Manchin’s support for the Inflation Reduction Act.
Specifically, Manchin agreed to lend his support to the bill—crucial for the bill’s eventual passage through the evenly divided Senate—in exchange for consideration at a later date of separate legislation that would grant some concessions to fossil fuels and would cut down on regulations of the industry.
The original deal with Manchin, negotiated between President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), it was agreed that Democrats would “pass comprehensive permitting reform legislation before the end of this fiscal year,” or Oct. 1….