Difficult to say whether he truly was negotiating or if he wasn’t. The problem is Manchin knows that. I am assuming he didn’t because you ask the main funding source to be cut off and then blame the price is too high. Now he wants the Dems to replan the whole bill by increasing taxes. This is ACA all over. Drag, drag, and drag get it way too close to the midterms and then pass it.

Exactly what the IOWA Republican senator did to Obama. We cannot give Manchin the benefit of the doubt here, because he never earned it really. How do you trust a man whose family business sells coal, but still sees fit to negotiate the climate change bill? An honest man would have sat out, not say it is run by a blind trust.