What Joe Manchin's leverage was over Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
According to Manchin, his agreement to the current spending bill was contingent upon a promise that:
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will generate a new bill for streamlined energy permitting and increased oil, gas and coal development
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will take up the Senate bill and whip enough of her House Democrat membership to join with Republicans in support of that Senate bill; and Joe Biden will sign that increased energy production bill.
The only possible leverage Manchin could have of such significance would be a threat to switch parties if Biden, Pelosi and Schumer reneged on the deal.
"I am not going to be steamrolled into a bunch of fossil fuel give-aways just because Manchin cut a deal in a closed room with Chuck Schumer," said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.). "He doesn't get to run the show on something like this, and many of us will have a say on what that deal looks like if it even happens."
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/08/14/house-democrats-refuse-to-support-second-part-of-manchin-schumer-deal-for-increased-energy-development-and-permitting/
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