president biden is meeting one-on-one with democrats who are critical, and today, pramila jayapal. a lot of focus remains on the u.s. senate, and there is one aspect of what biden wants and what many progressives want that seems to be in jeopardy. that involves the climate change portion of this reconciliation, the build back better biden bill. to explain this nag, this is the clean energy performance program. that is a program that would make it so that utility companies would be rewarded or penalized based on the how much renewable energy they use, trying to move them towards 100% renewable energy. they would be penalized if they don't go there. it is a creative way to put a cost on carbon. senator joe manchin of west virginia, a critical vote, objects to this. his state west virginia is powered 91% by coal and would