"After days of silence and muddy messaging, Sen. Joe Manchin has made his position known on the $1.7 trillion social and climate spending framework unveiled last week: He’s not ready to support it — and it’s not clear whether or when he will be.

The West Virginia Democrat today demanded that the cost estimate for the draft legislation be produced before he can commit to supporting it, saying more information is needed to guard against what he alleged were “shell games” and “budget gimmicks.”

A Congressional Budget Office “score” of a complex, nearly 1,700-page bill that’s still being negotiated could take weeks to complete.

As a result, Manchin might have doomed prospects for House Democrats being able to vote on the reconciliation measure by the week’s end — a goal intended to bolster President Biden’s standing during the COP 26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland."

Emma Dumain reports for E&E News November 1, 2021. [2]

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