His. Joe Manchin
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Manchin, during statements this week at a West Virginia Chamber of Commerce event, pointed to concerns about “runaway inflation,” the delta variant of the coronavirus, and the wrong withdrawal to Afghanistan to float by slowing what is the centerpiece of Biden’s economic agenda.
“If the country is facing what we are facing now … I would ask my colleagues and the entire Senate to press the $ 3.5 pause button [trillion]”Manchin said at Wednesday’s event.” Let’s sit down. Let’s see what happens. We have a lot on the plate. We really have a lot of them. I think that would be prudent and wise. ”
“I know they’re going crazy now … because what I said goes to all my groups in Washington,” Manchin added in reference to his Democratic colleagues. “But I’m thinking about it from the point of view of where we are today as a nation.”
Manchin’s statements come as Democrats negotiate and draft the $ 3.5 trillion bill, which is expected to include some of the party’s top priorities, including expanding Medicare, fighting change climate change and immigration reform. And if maintained by its commitment to a slow approach, it could pose a significant hurdle in the Democratic leadership’s timetable for advancing the all-democratic bill.
Leader of the Senate majority Charles Schumer
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But to get the bill to the Senate, Schumer will need Manchin’s vote, which will give him a huge influence to shape the details and timing of the reconciliation package.
Manchin, who spoke at the Chamber of Commerce event, argued that there was no reason to rush the only democratic spending plan saying “it’s nothing we need immediately.”
“Press the pause button like Americans. Press the pause button,” Manchin said.
Manchin doubled his statements, which were made Wednesday, in a Wall Street Journal publication on Thursday, warning that he cannot support a $ 3.5 trillion plan.
“Instead of rushing to spend billions on new government programs and additional funding, Congress should take a strategic break in budget conciliation legislation. A pause is justified because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic and allow for it.” We determine whether inflation is transitory or not, ”Manchin wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
“On the one hand, I will not bear a trillion of $ 3.5 trillion, nor near this level of additional spending, without more clarity on why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects that inflation and debt they have in existing government programs, ”Manchin added.
Manchin previously warned that he had “serious concerns” about a $ 3.5 trillion package in a statement issued hours after the Senate passed the $ 1 trillion bill last month that he and a bipartisan group of senators helped negotiate.
He also revealed during the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce event that he said this in private to the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Bernie Sanders
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“He looked at me and said,‘ are you going to vote for the three and a half billion? “I said, ‘Damn not Bernie, I’m not voting three and a half trillion.’ He says … ‘well, at least you’re honest with me,'” Manchin said.
Manchin added that he was willing to work with Sanders, but did not accept an “arbitrary number” and that a “pause” was “the best way to go.”
Manchin did not specify in the Wall Street Journal op-ed even during the West Virginia event how long he thinks the pause should be. But his stance provoked the immediate rage of the progressives.
“Manchin has weekly meetings with Exxon and is one of many senators who gives lobbyists their pen to write fossil fuel bills called ‘bipartisan.’ He’s killing people. Our people. At least 12 last night. Sick of this “bipartisan” corruption that pretends to be the moderation of sharp eyes, “the tweet tweeted. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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President of the Caucus of the Progressive House Pramila Jayapal
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And Ellen Sciales, communications director for the progressive climate change group Sunrise Movement, offered an equally concise reaction to Manchin: “Abolish the Senate.”
Democrats are following Biden’s spending plan in two ways: a $ 1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the Senate last month and a broad $ 3.5 trillion spending package that they want to pass this fall and that includes some of the top items on the Democrats ’agenda.
House Democrats have set Sept. 27 as the target deadline to vote on the Senate bill, but progressives warn they will not support it if it does not move with the $ 3.5 trillion package. Both House and Senate Democrats last month passed a budget that would allow the larger bill to be passed without Republican Party support in the Senate.
But they need a total unity of the 50-member Democratic Democratic group to be able to pass the larger package.
In addition to Manchin, the senator. Cinema Kyrsten
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“Proceedings in the U.S. House of Representatives will have no impact on Kyrsten’s views on what is best for our country, including the fact that she will not support a $ 3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill of dollars, “John LaBombard, a spokesman for Sinema, said late last year. month.
—Updated at 16:38