I like and vote for Manchin, but I think he is being self serving to/for West Virginians vs all Americans. I think that's unfortunate and bad policy.
WV's average household income is less than $73K per year (3rd lowest in the nation and almost $25K lower than national average per
Average Income by State, Median, Top & Percentiles [2020] - DQYDJ) so he isn't going to be stepping on a whole lot of toes by changing the terms here or get penalized by his voters. I don't like what he's doing and whoever runs against him from the GOP is still going to call him a communist or socialist. There are better battles to have than this one and I think this one is going to cost the party nationally.