Democrats are getting ready to move on from Joe Biden.
They know he can’t win in 2024 and now they’re turning their knives on him.
And one of Joe Biden’s former allies launched a brutal attack that could end his presidency.
Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia has been a consistent thorn in the side of Joe Biden and liberal Democrats since the day Biden took office.
While Manchin’s overall voting record is reliably liberal, he avoids going to the wild extremes that Biden and his fellow progressives do, and he is not afraid to speak out against their agenda.
Of course, part of the reason Manchin does this is because he represents West Virginia, an extremely conservative state.
But it’s never fun for Biden to be attacked by a member of his own party, especially one who has endorsed him in the past.
And now there is growing chatter that Manchin could actually run against Biden in the 2024 election, which would be a disaster for Democrats.
Manchin’s latest broadside against Biden had to do with a little-noticed move by Biden’s Treasury Department that helps the Chinese Communist Party take advantage of American citizens.
According to Fox News, “Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin scorched the Biden administration on Friday after it released federal guidance allowing Chinese companies to exploit taxpayer electric vehicle (EV) tax credits.”
“Manchin, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the guidance contravenes the intent of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which he authored, and that he would both pursue legislation striking the guidance and support any lawsuit challenging it. The Treasury Department guidance opens the door for Chinese firms to continue providing EV battery parts and materials to EVs eligible for credit.”
Here is what Manchin had to say: “We’ve always been able to make our own transmissions, our own alternators, and our own engines, and I do not understand why President Biden is allowing his administration to now route our essential supply chains through China.”
One can only wonder whether this was part of some secret deal that Biden agreed to during his recent meeting with Xi Jinping.
The article continues, “While the administration touted the guidance as a win in its efforts to bolster the domestic EV industry and onshore EV production, its definition of an FEOC opens the door for Chinese firms linked to China’s government to take advantage of taxpayer subsidies through indirect means, such as entering into joint ventures and investments, partnerships and licensing deals with companies in the U.S.”
The administration wants to make excuses for this policy, but it has raised many eyebrows and questions around Washington about what is really going on.
China is the biggest adversary to the United States, and the last thing the government should be doing is making it easier for them to steal U.S. taxpayer money.
Joe Manchin called out Joe Biden for this betrayal, and now Biden is losing even more support among Democrats.