Joe Manchin: “The President has requested $17.6 billion in appropriations for the Interior Department in Fiscal Year 2022.”

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

I will make a decision in January -- at the end of this year.