Manchin Sits With Republicans During State Of The Union

Well there you have it, folks, we here at this medi­um have been say­ing if it walks, quacks, and acts like a duck, guess what? It is a duck!

Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, opt­ed to sit on the Republicans’ side of the House cham­ber dur­ing President Biden’s first State of the Union address.

Why it mat­ters: Manchin has been out­spo­ken in recent days against what he has brand­ed “hyp­o­crit­i­cal” poli­cies on ener­gy imports pur­sued by the Biden admin­is­tra­tion. N0netheless, he stood repeat­ed­ly with his fel­low Democrats to applaud poli­cies out­lined by the president.

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• “While Americans decry what is hap­pen­ing in Ukraine, the United States con­tin­ues to allow the import of more than half a mil­lion bar­rels per day of crude oil and oth­er petro­le­um prod­ucts from Russia dur­ing this time of war,” Manchin said this week.
• Manchin also report­ed­ly did not stand with his fel­low Democrats when the pres­i­dent spoke about an expand­ed child tax cred­it, a pol­i­cy over which the sen­a­tor has expressed seri­ous qualms. read the full arti­cle at the link below.
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