{"id":48374,"date":"2022-12-08T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48374"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:01:05","slug":"a-broken-promise-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48374","title":{"rendered":"A Broken Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/12\/07\/house-democrats-take-victory-lap-helping-kill-manchins-energy-bill\/?utm_medium=email&amp;pnespid=6Od7V3hGMLJDwObDvDHsGcyFugCoRcRwJ.Pn2uhvoABmijIUFwg7xAaqTTG6ue4YGwaH7RIsvA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about the Democrats reneging on their promise they made to Senator Manchin in order to obtain his vote of their Inflation Reduction Act which was actually about funding green energy. It was an awful bill loaded with pork, and without Senator Manchin&#8217;s vote, it would not have passed.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A top House Democrat celebrated Tuesday after Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia\u2019s permitting reform bill was excluded from the annual military spending package.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In August, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/25\/some-democrats-torpedo-manchins-dirty-deal-permitting-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">help<\/a> Manchin pass a bill that would accelerate federal permitting for energy and mining projects in exchange for his sponsoring of the Democrats\u2019 climate spending bill.\u00a0 However, after Congressional leaders chose to remove Manchin\u2019s bill from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) due to a lack of votes, Democratic House Natural Resources Chair Raul Grijalva, who along with many more left-wing Democrats had opposed the bill, touted the defeat of Manchin\u2019s legislation as a win for \u201cenvironmental justice communities\u201d across the nation, <a href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/chair-grijalva-statement-on-exclusion-of-dirty-permitting-rider-from-must-pass-defense-bill-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/chair-grijalva-statement-on-exclusion-of-dirty-permitting-rider-from-must-pass-defense-bill-&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1670513503094000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3_Y46wuV2dGtO5neL-SaK6\">according<\/a> to a Tuesday press release.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThanks to the hard-fought persistence and vocal opposition of environmental justice communities all across the country, the Dirty Deal has finally been laid to rest,\u201d Grijalva said. \u201cHouse Democrats can now close out the year having made historic progress on climate change without this ugly asterisk.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The historic progress they made is likely to cause power brownouts this winter in the coldest areas of the country. People may not be able to heat their homes as a result of Democrat policies. The Inflation Reduction Act will not reduce inflation&#8211;it will only fund the special interests that are involved in green energy. It has nothing to do with inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the Democrats reneging on their promise they made to Senator Manchin in order to obtain his vote of their Inflation Reduction Act which was actually about funding green energy. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,15597,13356,7015],"class_list":["post-48374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-inflation-reduction-act","tag-senator-joe-manchin","tag-the-daily-caller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48376,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions\/48376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}