The Inflation Wars Have Officially Begun

Joe Manchin already has plenty of issues with the Build Back Better plan. He doesn’t like how much it costs. He doesn’t like that it would do more to move the country beyond coal. He perhaps especially doesn’t like that finally signing off on it would mean his name would no longer be in the headlines. But this week, Manchin found a new reason to block Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal, the one that Biden’s legacy—and Democrats’ 2022 campaigns—may very well rely on: Inflation. Manchin, a conservative Democrat, has been warning the White House about inflation for some time now, but… Read Full Article