Imagine that every time someone referred to someone as a ‘miss’ who was asked for an answer because of their age and gender? It would be pretty annoying if they answered with ‘the old man’, right? Why this kind of strange and sponsoring behavior is so accepted that I stay beyond it! “
The comments come after Manchin, in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” denied recent allegations by Ocasio-Cortez that he was bound to large energy companies.
“I keep the door open to everyone. This is totally false,” Manchin told CNN’s Dana Bash, who strongly denied the allegations. “That kind of superlatives, it’s horrible. Keep splitting, splitting, splitting. I don’t know the lady so well. I met her once, between sets here, but she’s there. We haven’t had any conversation. She just speculates and says things because flight “.
The round trip underscores the challenge facing democratic leaders as they work to unite their party behind the economic bill, a legislative priority for President Joe Biden that would expand the nation’s social security network and the ‘will advance through a closely divided Congress. with only Democratic votes.
Manchin, who could jeopardize the bill, expressed reservations Sunday telling Bash he would not support the $ 3.5 trillion price and that “there is no way” that Congress can meet the timetable set by the bill. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, to approve it.