Manchin cast doubt on deal this week for $3.5T spending bill

[left-of-center2012]

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday appeared to pour cold water on Democratic leadership's hopes of reaching a deal on a sweeping spending bill in time for a Thursday vote on the Senate-passed infrastructure bill.

Manchin, asked if he considered Thursday a deadline for working out an agreement on the sweeping social spending package, appeared skeptical.

“I don’t know how you could. I don't know. It’s so complicated and so convoluted. ...We’re looking at every aspect we can. ...We want to be fair with everybody," Manchin said about having a deal on a framework for the bill worked out by Thursday.

Manchin said it would be a "shame" if progressives sink the infrastructure bill and predicted that it would pass—eventually.
“I guarantee you this,
the infrastructure bill will be passed before November 2022," he said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/574188-manchin-cast-doubt-on-deal-this-week-for-35t-spending-bill

[rickford66]

1. Since he's sabotaging everything anyway, dump him over the side.

[vercetti2021]

2. Translation

I will only do what my puppet masters say. I'm tired of this *** and his Arizona colleague