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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC unearths clip of Joe Manchin calling for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/9/2051316/-MSNBC-unearths-clip-of-Joe-Manchin-calling-for-up-to-4-trillion-in-infrastructure-spendingIts hard to understand what Joe Manchin is doing these days, other than forcing Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell to fight over who gets to loofah his undercarriage as he dithers in the bath over infrastructure spending. Of course, the real question is whether either of those two can loofah more lovingly than the fossil fuel industry, because just eight months ago, Manchin didnt balk at $4 trillion in infrastructure spendingso it may just be that his recent concerns have more to do with what the money will be spent on than how much we spend.
To be fair, the budget reconciliation package the Democrats are hoping to pass over Manchins all-too-strident objections comes to $3.5 trillion. Along with the already passed (though still-unsigned) $1.2 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the total cost to the Treasury would be $4.7 trillion. But, hey, are we going to blow up Americas (and the worlds) hopes and dreams over $700 billion?
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan recently unearthed a clip in which Manchin endorsed, all on his lonesome, an appropriately robust infrastructure investmentup to $4 trillion. And strangely enough, at the time, he wasnt worried about inflation so much as the significant opportunity costs of not passing meaningful infrastructure legislation.
On the
@MehdiHasanShow, we found a clip of @Sen_JoeManchin back in January calling for up to **$4 trillion** in new infrastructure spending.
So what changed Senator? What changed?
To be fair, the budget reconciliation package the Democrats are hoping to pass over Manchins all-too-strident objections comes to $3.5 trillion. Along with the already passed (though still-unsigned) $1.2 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the total cost to the Treasury would be $4.7 trillion. But, hey, are we going to blow up Americas (and the worlds) hopes and dreams over $700 billion?
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan recently unearthed a clip in which Manchin endorsed, all on his lonesome, an appropriately robust infrastructure investmentup to $4 trillion. And strangely enough, at the time, he wasnt worried about inflation so much as the significant opportunity costs of not passing meaningful infrastructure legislation.
Link to tweet
On the
@MehdiHasanShow, we found a clip of @Sen_JoeManchin back in January calling for up to **$4 trillion** in new infrastructure spending.
So what changed Senator? What changed?
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MSNBC unearths clip of Joe Manchin calling for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending (Original Post)
CousinIT
Sep 2021
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ebbie15644
(1,214 posts)1. A commercial made and
Played all over WV
Etherealoc1
(256 posts)2. Invite him on all of the networks to explain
his BS stance from then to now.
As of Monday 24-7 cycle.
crickets
(25,960 posts)3. Great find! This needs to be front and center everywhere. nt
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)4. OL ' Manchin just got his moscow mitch butt licker ass handed to him !