{"id":50921,"date":"2022-07-31T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50921"},"modified":"2022-07-31T22:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:48:20","slug":"manchin-defends-climate-tax-deal-with-schumer-in-multi-show-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=50921","title":{"rendered":"Manchin defends climate, tax deal with Schumer in multi-show blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) appeared on all five major political talk shows on Sunday to defend his climate, health care and tax deal reached with Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Charles Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.) while fending off Republican senators who called it a betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Manchin took to the airwaves to portray the package as inflation-fighting legislation, championing provisions like those empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices and a $300 billion allocation to reduce the federal deficit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a Democrat bill,\u201d Manchin said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s not a Republican bill. It\u2019s definitely not a green bill. This is a red, white and blue bill, and it\u2019s great for America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) appeared on all five&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50922,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50921\/revisions\/50922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}