‘Offensive and disgusting’: Manchin unloads on Biden over coal comment

Manchin criticized the president for promising to shut down America's coal plants in a speech in California.

Manchin said in a statement that Biden's comments were "outrageous and divorced from reality." The American people are losing trust in the president because of his comments.

In a speech in San Diego Friday, Biden mentioned that he was in Massachusetts a month ago at the site of the largest old coal plant in America. Well, guess what? They spent too much money on it.

Even if they have all the coal for the rest of the plant, no one is building new coal plants because they can't rely on it. It is going to be a wind generation. Wind and solar will be shutting down plants across America.

Manchin, a coal advocate who struck a deal with the Biden administration to allow passage of the climate focused Inflation Reduction Act, called Biden's words "offensive and disgusting."

The President has never mentioned this to me. Manchin said being cavalier about the coal jobs for men and women in West Virginia and across the country who put their lives on the line to help build and power this country is offensive. It is time for the President to learn a lesson from his words and apologize to the workers.

There was no response from the White House.