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Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act “Secretly” Brought to You by Bill Gates

The Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” – which according to the Congressional Budget Office will raise taxes on the middle class to the tune of $20 billion – not to mention unleash an army of IRS agents on working class Americans over the next decade, was made possible by Bill Gates and (in smaller part) Larry Summers, who have been known to hang out together.

The bill, of course, was signed yesterday.

In a Tuesday Bloomberg article that reads more like a newsletter for the Gates fan club, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder recalls how earlier this year, as moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema continued to block the tax-and-spend legislation over concerns that it would raise taxes on the middle class (it will), Gates says he tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he’d been cultivating since at least 2019.

Gates was banking on more than just his trademark optimism about addressing climate change and other seemingly intractable problems that have been his focus since stepping down as Microsoft’s chief executive two decades ago. As he revealed to Bloomberg Green, he has quietly lobbied Manchin and other senators, starting before President Joe Biden had won the White House, in anticipation of a rare moment in which heavy federal spending might be secured for the clean-energy transition.

Those discussions gave him reason to believe the senator from West Virginia would come through for the climate — and he was willing to continue pressing the case himself until the very end. “The last month people felt like, OK, we tried, we’re done, it failed,” Gates said. “I believed it was a unique opportunity.” So he tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he’d cultivated for at least three years. “We were able to talk even at a time when he felt people weren’t listening.” -Bloomberg

We know, gag us with a spoon.

Apparently Gates and Manchin’s bromance began when the billionaire wooed the West Virgina Senator at a 2019 meal in Seattle, in an effort to garner support for clean-energy policy. Manchin at the time was the senior-most Democrat on the energy committee.

“My dialogue with Joe has been going on for quite a while,” said Gates.

After Manchin walked (again) on the bill last December over concerns that it would exacerbate the national debt, inflation, the pandemic, and amid geopolitical uncertainty with Russia, Gates jumped into action. A few weeks later, he met with Manchin and his wife, Gayle Conelly Manchin, at a DC restaurant, where they talked about what West Virginia needed. Manchin understandably wanted to preserve jobs at the center of the US coal industry, while Gates suggested that coal plant workers could simply swap over to nuclear plants – such as those from Gates’ TerraPower.

Manchin apparently wasn’t convinced, announcing on Feb. 1 that “Build Back Better” (the Inflation Reduction Act’s previous iteration) was “dead.”

In an effort to convince him otherwise, Democrats pulled together a cadre of economists and other Manchin influencers – including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who convinced Manchin that the bill wouldn’t raise taxes on the middle class, or add to the deficit.

Collin O’Mara, chief executive officer of the National Wildlife Federation, recruited economists to assuage Manchin’s concerns — including representatives from the University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware brought in a heavyweight: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who has spent decades advising Democrats.

The economists were able to “send this signal that [the bill’s] going to help with the deficit,” O’Mara said. “It’s going to be slightly deflationary and it’s going to spur growth and investment in all these areas.” Through this subtle alchemy, clean-energy investments could be reframed for Manchin as a hedge against future spikes in oil and gas prices and a way to potentially export more energy to Europe. -Bloomberg

Gates also sprang into action again on July 7, when Manchin was spotted at the Sun Valley media conference in Idaho – which Gates also attended.

“We had a talk about what was missing, what needed to be done,” Gates said. “And then after that it was a lot of phone calls.”

Gates looks back at the new law with satisfaction. He achieved what he set out to do. “I will say that it’s one of the happier moments of my climate work,” Gates said. “I have two things that excite me about climate work. One is when policy gets done well, and this is by far the biggest moment like that.” His other pleasure comes from interviewing people at climate and clean-tech startups: “I hear about this amazing new way to make steel, cement and chemicals.” -Bloomberg

“I don’t want to take credit for what went on,” says Gates – in the article about how he gets credit for what went on.

READ 26 COMMENTS
  • Gil says:

    And we all wondered how Cheney made millions during her term in Congress……well, we should all check Schumer’s and Manchin’s bank accounts. Traitors. Vote them OUT

  • MAGA24 says:

    People of WVA need to wake up and stop voting for dems for any office, or they will get more of the same. How can a state that voted 90+% for Trump elect a dem to any office? Mansion is an establishment insider going along to get along in typical swamp fashion. He needs to be replaced by a MAGA patriot.

  • B says:

    W Virginians must now stand up and call out their senator who has openly and officially become a Satanist. Manchin is now squarely in Satan’s club. The Evil is in charge in DC. Pray people- because America is about to be destroyed by Evil. You have no idea how bad it’s going to get.
    America needed warriors for good – instead they sold America out to Satan.

  • Milton Wiseman says:

    The people of West Virginia need to remember what Joe just did to their state, coal will die there and all the workers that work in those mines WILL be unemployed. Nuclear power, yea right, the training and certification in this field are beyond a high school diploma.
    AND, what does the state get from this, NOTHING. Joe has betrayed the good people of West Virginia, he expects to be re-elected, he has also betrayed the people of America with his bought and paid for vote. He was a standout for the right thing and threw that away with this one vote. He needs to be removed in November, West Virginia deserves better and I know that there are folks there that believe in West Virginia and it’s people, as well as the country we call home. Remember his betrayal in November at the polls and elect a servant of the people.

  • robinsong01 says:

    It isn’t much of a secret. The other pug who has his hands in the honey is Geirge Soros

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