Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has helped divert millions of dollars in federal funds to organizations associated with his wife Gayle Manchin in recent years.
, which Sen. Manchin had co-sponsored and championed. After the Senate passed the legislation, Manchin celebrated the billions of dollars that would be sent to West Virginia-based initiatives, but didn't mention the ARC funding.
"Bethany’s Board of Trustees was – and remains – supportive of the effort to secure the USDA loan," the college added., helped author the Inflation Reduction Act in August that appropriated billions of dollars in funding for the program.In addition, in 2019, USDA awarded Reconnecting McDowell – a rural community development project in West Virginia that Gayle Manchin has worked on in various leadership roles since 2011 – a $250,000 grant.
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