Award-winning actress Bette Midler has apologized for an incendiary tweet on Monday calling West Virginians 'illiterate' and 'poor' on in response to Senator Joe Manchin announcing he would vote 'no' on President Joe Biden's sweeping $1.75 trillion social and climate reform plan. She excused the offensive remark by saying she was just 'seeing red' and called the Manchin family's coal business a 'criminal enterprise.''I apologize to the good people of WVA for my last outburst. I’m just seeing red; #JoeManchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise,' Midler wrote on Twitter yesterday.'Is he really the best WV has to offer its own citizens? Surely there’s someone there who has the state’s interests at heart, not his own!'Midler had come under fire from both conservatives and liberals after she tweeted that Senator Joe Manchin ‘wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia…poor, illiterate, and strung out.’The First Wives Club actress angered thousands with her tweet, which said: 'What #JoeManchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible.'He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.'Manchin infuriated his fellow Democrats in Congress and the White House when he revealed his opposition to Biden's Build Back Better bill on Fox News Sunday. With Democrats' 50-50 majority in the Senate and full Republican opposition to the package, Biden needed every single Senator of his party to vote yes for it to pass. Midler apologized on Twitter after her initial attack on Manchin stirred outrageHis move was lauded by Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said Democrats 'don't want' Manchin in their party but that he would 'welcome' the West Virginia moderate Democrat should he choose to cross the aisle. West Virginia's economy ranks 48th out of all 50 statesWest Virginia ranks among the lowest in the nation in terms of economic growth, poverty rates and employment. The state's economy is ranked 48th in the nation, according to US News & World Report. It's also 48th in terms of employment, with only Alaska and Mississippi beneath it. When it comes to attracting and building new private businesses, the state ranks dead last. According to the latest census data, West Virginia's median household income, per capita income and poverty rates are below the national average. The US-wide median household income is $62,843, while in WVA it's $46,711. Per capita income in the state is $26,480, nearly $10,000 lower than the national average of $34,103. WVA's poverty rate is also 15.8 percent, significantly higher than the US-wide 11.4 percent poverty rate. Press Secretary Jen Psaki issued a lengthy, caustic statement calling Manchin's 'sudden and inexplicable reversal' a 'breach of his commitments to the President.


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