'Kayaktivists' Protest Outside Joe Manchin's Houseboat Over Budget Bill
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"He’s not listening to us, he’s listening to Big Money," one group's leader said. "That’s why we’re here at his yacht in D.C. today.”
Activists in kayaks and other watercraft protested outside Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) houseboat in Washington on Monday, urging the key moderate lawmaker to work with his colleagues to pass a massive budget reconciliation bill.
A small group of demonstrators with the groups Greenpeace USA, Young West Virginia, Race Matters WV, CASA, and the Center for Popular Democracy Action took to the waves outside the boat, the “Almost Heaven,” bearing banners reading, “No Climate No Deal,” and “Don’t Sink West Virginia.”
The protestors were targeting Manchin’s ongoing resistance to Democrats’ ambitious, multi-trillion dollar social and environmental package, a key part of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda that would dramatically increase funding to address climate change, spend billions on infrastructure and fund programs like free pre-K and dental for seniors.
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