Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was the lone Democrat to join Republicans in a vote to approve a motion filed by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Wednesday to strip billions of dollars from a green climate fund in order to increase spending on a military weapons system.
The 50-44 vote, first reported by C-SPAN, would have the Senate siphon off $8 billion from the Green Climate Fund Authorization Act, a bill introduced by the House of Representatives last year to authorize $4 billion this and next year for "a fund established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to finance projects that address climate change." According to C-SPAN, that appropriation is now poised to finance the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which develops emerging military technologies. Manchin, who has become notorious for torpedoing President Biden's agenda, was the only Democrat to vote "yea."
