US media report that the president of the United States of America, Joe Biden, would be considering declaring a national climate emergency this weekdespite the fact that one of the key members of the Democratic caucus has already expressed his disagreement about it.
This was announced by the newspaper ‘Washington Post’, which cited three anonymous sources who would be familiar with the matter.
According to the media the announcement would include a series of actions and measures to curb the emissions that cause warming global.
We are considering all options and no decision has been made
In a statement, sent by a White House official to the American newspaper, the president’s firmness regarding the decision would cost: “The president made it clear that if the Senate does not act to address the climate crisis and strengthen our national industry of clean energy, he will do it”.
(You can read: Energy diversification, key to climate change in Latin America).
Let’s remember that Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a key vote to advance Biden’s legislative agenda, informed his party colleagues last Thursday that he will not support the president’s plans regarding climate change policies and tax increases.
According to several US media outlets that quoted sources from the Democratic Party, Manchin was blunt in his opposition to increasing spending on the fight against climate change and raising tax burdens on companies and the rich.
These two provisions are key in the package that Biden and the Democrats wanted to approve before the legislative elections in November to try to gain some breath in an electoral race that is tremendously complicated, with the president’s approval rating at a minimum.
(You may be interested: ‘The growth of deforestation has been reduced by 33% in five years’).
The lack of support from Manchin was already the main element that brought down what should have been the first major economic project of the Biden government, baptized as ‘Rebuild Better’, with a budget of around 1.75 billion dollars and that didn’t work out.
The importance of Manchin to Biden’s agenda
Manchin – a Democrat who represents the very conservative state of West Virginia – is a key vote to advance any measure in the Senate given its current tight composition, in which exactly half of the senators are Republicans and the other half are Democrats.
When there is a tie in a vote, the vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, is the one who has the casting vote to tip the balance in favor of the progressives, but for this it is necessary that absolutely all the Democrats -including Manchin- vote as a group.
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