{"id":135883,"date":"2023-01-12T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135883"},"modified":"2023-01-11T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:17:42","slug":"scratching-his-wifes-fleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135883","title":{"rendered":"Scratching his wife&#8217;s fleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-121046 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manchin2-227x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manchin2-227x300.png 227w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manchin2-768x1016.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manchin2-252x333.png 252w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/manchin2.png 875w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This year should be a banner year for the Manchins. Joe is comfortably in office, and his wife gets to oversee $1,200,000,000 her hubby helped bring to the table.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III backed the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill in December which included a $200 million increase in funding for a commission overseen by his wife.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, Gayle Manchin, an educator and former West Virginia official, was initially tapped by President Biden to serve as federal co-chair of the ARC and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The West Virginia senator previously helped craft earlier legislation, following his wife&#8217;s 2021 appointment, that allocated $1 billion in funding over five years for the ARC. The funding, part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, roughly doubled\u00a0 the ARC&#8217;s funding levels.<\/p>\n<p>The ARC is an economic development partnership between the government and 13 Appalachian states that helps distribute federal infrastructure grants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/commission-led-sen-manchins-wife-184504569.html\">Fox News via Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her committee position pays about $160K annually, which isn&#8217;t bad in an area where the median income is less than a third of that. And it seems to be a worthy cause &#8211; Biden&#8217;s policies cost a LOT of coal miners their jobs, and those mythical computer programming jobs they were told to get do require a bit of training. But there is a heck of a preceptual problem, Joe, when you are the swing voter on legislation which makes your WIFE the biggest rainmaker on the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Like someone said: instead of examining the millionaires who go to Washngton, we should be more interested in looking at the Washington imports who become millionaires whilst on the government payroll. I&#8217;ve seen their salaries &#8211; that ain&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year should be a banner year for the Manchins. Joe is comfortably in office, and &hellip; <a title=\"Scratching his wife&#8217;s fleas\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135883\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scratching his wife&#8217;s fleas<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}