'We want to live': Climate protesters accost Sen. Manchin

Climate activists successful the D.C. country accosted Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, connected Thursday arsenic Congress weighs whether to walk President Joe Biden's projected spending packages.

According to Insider and The New York Post, protesters with the Sunrise Movement approached Manchin arsenic helium near his houseboat connected the Potomac River and made his mode to his car.

A video posted by the Sunrise Movement showed protesters chanting "we privation to live" and "fight for us."

Other videos primitively posted connected TikTok showed protesters blocking Manchin's car, a Maserati, arsenic helium attempted to permission a parking garage.

The Sunrise Movement, which connected its website calls itself the "climate revolution," is simply a radical that supports progressive policies similar "The Green New Deal."

In caller months, Manchin and chap mean Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, person been the target of protests arsenic the enactment pushes to walk laws to enactment Biden's home agenda.

Manchin and Sinema person balked astatine the precocious terms of Biden's spending bills, which astatine 1 constituent totaled much than $3.5 trillion. Because the measure volition apt request the enactment of each 50 Democratic senators successful bid to pass, lawmakers person agreed to shave respective trillion dollars disconnected the last terms tag.

Manchin, who has heavy ties to West Virginia's ember industry, besides pushed for lawmakers to region provisions from a societal spending measure that would person incentivized powerfulness companies to determination distant from ember and earthy state successful favour of renewable energy.