Sanders pushes back at Manchin on $3.5T spending plan
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Democrats can't afford to slow down progress on a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said the party should hit the pause button.
"You can't slow it down," Sanders told The New York Times in an interview over the weekend during his recent trip to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one of the latest stops on his cross-state campaign to the forthcoming legislation.
The massive spending plan, which Democrats have already been at work crafting during recess this month, is expected to check off a number of party-backed priorities, including funding for universal pre-K, tuition-free community college, and health care expansions.
Manchin, who has expressed concerns about the price tag for the package, had urged his colleagues to "hit the pause button."
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