The legislation, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, still faces uncertainty over potential disagreements among Democrats over its tax provisions.īut Republicans reacted angrily to Manchin's change of heart after he balked at a more expansive version of the bill. Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesĪ day after the Senate passed the CHIPS Act, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York stunned Washington by announcing they had agreed on the framework on the domestic spending bill that includes money for climate change, health care and measures intended to reduce inflation and the federal deficit. Above, Collins talks with reporters as she walks through the Senate subway following the weekly Senate GOP policy luncheon at the U.S. Maine Senator Susan Collins says a bill to protect gay marriage is in peril after Democrats revived a controversial spending plan. reliance on foreign-made semiconductors, unless Democrats agreed to drop the domestic spending package.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican, previously threatened to block the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan bill to reduce U.S. "I just think the timing could not have been worse and it came totally out of the blue," the Maine Republican told the news outlet. A key moderate in the evenly divided Senate, the remarks from Collins signal that congressional Democrats face a delicate balancing act to pass both bills before the impending midterm elections. Republican Senator Susan Collins says negotiations to codify federal protections for same-sex marriage could now be imperiled after Senate Democrats abruptly announced a deal on sweeping tax and domestic spending legislation.Ĭollins told HuffPost Thursday she faces an uphill battle to convince Republicans to sign on to the gay marriage bill after Democrats a day earlier revived a sweeping spending package that was previously abandoned.
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