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Inside the two-day scramble to add drought funding to the climate law

The Washington Post · Maxine Joselow · last updated

A week after Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that they had reached a surprise deal on a landmark climate, health and tax policy law, the Colorado River was in a climate-change-fueled crisis — one deepening by the day.

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