Counterpoint: Manchin Disappoints With Inflation Reduction Act – InsideSources

For an alternate viewpoint, see ‘Point: Sellout or Statesman? Manchin Charts a Prominent Path.’
Throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has acted as a check on his party’s worst excesses. Manchin has stopped billions, possibly trillions, of unaffordable government spending. He trimmed bills into a reasonable state and was the key voice bringing, for instance, the Biden infrastructure bill from $715 billion down to $550 billion of new spending.
Manchin has generally been a voice of moderation in a party under pressure from its most fervent Big Government voices.