butted heads with U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Thursday during a Senate hearing on green energy.
Manchin expressed frustration with the Inflation Reduction Act's tax credit for electric vehicles, taking issue with loopholes in its distinction between manufacturing and processing of materials. "We want this done in America. We don't want this overseas because basically then there's no urgency for our manufacturing to ever do this," Manchin said.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, presides over a hearing in Washington, D.C.cathode powder, lithium and other materials for battery production into "processing," the Energy Department was loosening its commitment to manufacturingHe continued, "That's the problem I'm having with it. If we're going to get something for it, I don't wanna be relying on foreign supply chains.