Youth-run environmental groups are gearing up to pressure Democratic U.S. Congress members to retool their $3.5 trillion spending package to fund more programs battling climate change.
The plan for $3.5 trillion in new spending includes both the efforts on the grid and climate-adaptation jobs. But some Democrats have objected to the size of the new bill and growing U.S. deficits. If this further disheartens youthful green activists, it could be fatal for Democrats trying to hold on to tenuous majorities in the House and Senate in 2022.
Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat representing the conservative-leaning state of West Virginia who enjoys a virtual veto over the Democratic agenda, has expressed reservations about the SenateManchin is one of several main targets for the Sunrise Movement, which plans to inundate key lawmakers with phone calls, organize protests in their districts and work against the re-election of those who oppose expanding climate provisions in the law.
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