Inside the last-ditch effort by Democratic women to pressure Manchin and salvage paid family and med

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medical leave

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand long has called on Congress to provide paid family and medical leave to the millions of Americans who don’t have it. So when she found out last week the plan had been dropped from her party’s landmark spending bill, she began an eleventh-hour campaign to try to resurrect it.

The New York Democrat targeted the chief objector to the program, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.). She hit the phones Friday and fired off a flurry of texts to her moderate-leaning colleague that continued into the weekend, saying she would be even willing to “meet him in D.C. or anywhere in the country” to make the case for the benefits, she said in an interview.

Yet Manchin refused to relent, Gillibrand said, resisting her latest entreaties much as he had the many alternatives that Democrats had presented to him in recent weeks.

Still, Gillibrand remained undeterred. “It’s not over until it’s over,” she said.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/10/30/manchin-paid-leave/

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1. MANCHIN's view: Turned on by women "begging" him for something.

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2. 195 countries on Earth. 188 offer paid family leave. U.S. NOT one of them.

I had no idea of those numbers until Pamela Brown from CNN brought that up earlier this evening.