Joe Manchin hails expansive bill he finally agrees to as ‘great for America’

Rewritten $739bn bill, now called the Inflation Reduction Act, that tackles US debt and the climate crisis could pass Senate this week

West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin on Sunday hailed the legislation he almost killed off, calling the rewritten $739bn bill he agreed to last week to pay down US debt and tackle the climate crisis great for America".

Manchin, on a tour of all five Sunday morning TV politics talk shows, told CBS's Face the Nation that the energy and climate deal he's now supporting will tackle inflation because it will be aggressively producing more energy, to get more supply, to get the prices down".