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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Manchin's budget bill rebuff, the White House isn't worried.
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) last week sent his fellow Democrats into a panic when he penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed saying he would not support his party's $3.5 trillion spending bill "without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs." The package spells out massive investments in everything from child care to immigration to climate policy. But to pass, the bill would need unanimous Democratic approval, so Manchin's wavering support "could implode Biden's whole agenda," said The Washington Post's Greg Sargent.
But the Biden administration isn't worried, apparently. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told CNN on Sunday that Manchin is "very persuadable," and suggested the senator could be won over with tweaks to the bill. White House senior adviser Cedric Richmond echoed this sentiment, telling ABC's This Week that "this ... is just the sausage-making process at the end. It just happens." He added the administration was "still full steam ahead on trying to get our legislation passed." And Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) more or less told CNN that Manchin will come around in the end, like he always does. He has "many times been willing to get to a place that's the right place to be," Klobuchar said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-freaking-over-joe-manchins-144521824.html
Hope you're right.
Celerity
(43,150 posts)AZSkiffyGeek
(10,974 posts)Hell fret about being concerned and then vote for the bill anyway.
captain queeg
(10,104 posts)iemanja
(53,016 posts)brush
(53,743 posts)She's more of a pain than Manchin.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,427 posts)This needs to pass now. It needs to take effect now, so that the public sees it was DEMOCRATS who got something done and the benefit will be felt before the next election.
brush
(53,743 posts)going in all the states.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,427 posts)and not just something to stall off the public who are paying attention to the way Manchin could be imperiling Biden's agenda.
The deal was to pass BOTH bills, not just the one with corporate input, a handful of republicon votes, and relying on more borrowing.
iemanja
(53,016 posts)They'll buy him off with something in the bill.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)And hard to see how Manchin just up and changes his mind in they timeframe we need it to happen in. And how hes going to just change his mind on all the points he brought up in his op-Ed.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and lets move on. We have the minority attacking black voting and womens body autonomy.
Today works, come on. I heard on podcast, Pod Save America, you never get a day back. Every day that passes without moving the needle, is a day lost.