Manchin, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, makes nearly $500,000 a year—roughly three times his congressional salary—from investments in his family’s coal empire, a total of $5.2 million since joining the Senate in 2010, while refusing to answer questions about it. He’s Congress’ top recipient of oil and gas donations this election cycle, accepting $400,000 from fossil fuel industry PACs and executives in the last quarter alone. Manchin was the chief architect of the energy portions of the bipartisan physical infrastructure bill, which contains $25 billion in potential fossil fuel subsidies as well as $11.3 billion in funding that would benefit his family’s coal brokerage. Maybe I should originally have posted FOX DESTROYING THE HENHOUSE.
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