West Virginia’s Joe Manchin has called out the US president for pledging to shut down America’s coal-fueled power plants
US Senator Joe Manchin, one of the most powerful lawmakers in Joe Biden’s own Democrat party, has blasted the president for vowing to shut down America’s coal-fueled power plants, unleashing an unusually candid rebuke of the leader just three days before the congressional midterm elections.
“President Biden’s comments are not only outrageous and divorced from reality,” Manchin said on Saturday in a statement, “they ignore the severe economic pain the American people are feeling because of rising energy costs. Comments like these are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden.”
Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, was reacting to a speech that Biden gave on Saturday in California, where the president said of the nation’s coal-fueled power stations, “We’re going to be shutting these…
