Joe Manchin goes scorched-earth on Biden admin over EV actions boosting China

Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is blasting the Biden administration and accusing it of breaking the law after the Treasury Department released electric vehicle guidance.

"I remember waiting in line at the gas station in 1974 after the oil embargo, and I can tell you that I do not intend to wait in line for a battery produced in China if I am forced to buy an EV. The United States has never had to rely on foreign adversaries to build our cars and trucks," Manchin said in his statement Friday.  Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.

"We’ve always been able to make our own transmissions, our own alternators, and our own engines, and I do not understand why President Biden is allowing his administration to now route our essential supply chains through China," he continued. "The proposed Treasury rules on Foreign Entities of Concern are another example of the Biden administration clearly breaking the law to try to implement a bill that it could not pass."