WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin said he has “no intentions” of switching political parties, but didn’t rule out the possibility in the future.
Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat who had significant leverage over President Joe Biden’s economic agenda in the evenly divided U.S. Senate over the past two years, suggested on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that his decision could depend on how policies develop under a bipartisan infrastructure bill and the administration’s tax, climate and health care bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act.
“Let’s see how that plays out ... and I’ll let you know later what I decide to do,” Manchin said in the interview Sunday. “But right now I have no intentions of changing anything except working for West Virginians, trying to give them more opportunities, better quality of life and basically making sure our country is energy secured.”
