Biden hails ‘most significant legislation to tackle climate crisis’ after Manchin says yes – as it happened

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Joe Biden was not involved" in negotiations over the newly announced Inflation Reduction Act, Joe Manchin has said, claiming credit instead for himself and his own aides.

In a press call Thursday morning that shed a little more light, but not very much, on how the bill came to be, the Democratic West Virginia senator said:

It was me and my staff. And then we worked with [Senate majority leader Chuck] Schumer's staff. My staff was driving it. We wrote the bill. Schumer's staff would look at it and we would negotiate, and we worked that through them.

President Biden was not involved.