Manchin-Schumer Shock Deal Began in Basement, Unfolded in Secret
- Deal brings $369 billion tax, energy and climate plan
- Summers’ help sought out as other senators lobbied Manchin
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It looked to most Democrats in Washington two weeks ago that Senator Joe Manchin had slammed the brakes on President Joe Biden’s tax and climate agenda.
He told a radio host in his home state of West Virginia that he wanted to wait, that inflation was too high and the economy too shaky. In September he’d reassess.