The former West Virginia senator, who switched from Democrat to Independent in 2024, has agreed to join Bondi Partners, an Australia-based consultancy and lobbying firm, the company announced on Friday.
Manchin will be joining the firm, whose clients include an array of trade associations and Australian companies, as a senior adviser.
“We are pleased to welcome Senator Manchin to Bondi Partners,” Bondi Partners global president Joe Hockey said in a press release. “Washington D.C. is the modern day Rome, it’s the epicentre of politics, and Joe Manchin has been in the middle of it for more than two decades.”
The firm cited Manchin’s role in crafting the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as well as his experience as a top power broker in the Senate.
While the Inflation Reduction Act is in the sights of the Trump administration, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed Congress with a strong bipartisan majority and still has a lot of funds up for grabs.
Outside of lobbying, Bondi Partners provides its clients with reputation management, public profile building, policy analysis as well as “commercial solutions” in the mining, financial services, clean energy, space, food, and