Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Radical labor legislation threatens war on small businesses and workers Raising tax workers and billionaires The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Questions on Biden’s agenda; unemployment benefits end MORE (I-Vt.) He said Democrats cannot afford to slow progress in a $ 3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package after the senator. Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin The Hill’s Morning Report – Presented by Facebook – Questions on Biden’s agenda; unemployment benefits will end the Supreme Court ruling on the Texas abortion law, which shakes lawmakers. Sunday shows: Biden’s national agenda and Texas abortion law dominate MORE (DW.Va.) said the group should press the pause button.
“You can’t slow down,” Sanders told the New York Times in an interview over the weekend during his recent trip to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, one of the last stops of his interstate campaign on upcoming legislation.
The massive spending plan, which Democrats have already been working on during this month’s recess, is expected to check a number of party-backed priorities, including universal pre-K funding, unregistered community college and extensions of Health.
Manchin, who has expressed concern about the price of the package, had urged his colleagues to “press the pause button.”
“I, for one, will not support $ 3.5 trillion, or close to that level of additional spending, without more clarity on why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects that inflation and the debt they have in existing government programs, ”Manchin wrote in an opinion piece last week.
Democrats had hoped to move the spending plan to the House in late September. But Manchin said he needed to “have more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic” before spending so much money. He also expressed concern about inflation.
Sanders said it is crucial that Democrats act quickly on the $ 3.5 trillion plan, which the party hopes to convey just one Democratic vote. This will require the unification of the 50 Senate Democrats. Budgetary conciliation rules prevent the Republican Party from filibustering the measure.
“In a short time, everything will become political. The only way to do things historically in Congress is the first year of a session, where you can escape a little bit of partisan politics, ”he said.
Manchin’s resistance to the top figure is one of many obstacles the party faces as it struggles to maintain a united front amid spending negotiations.
Pressed on Manchin’s call for Democrats to stop reconciliation bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“Everyone works very hard. The committees are doing their job. We have a good schedule and I am very excited “, he said.
Sanders also expressed confidence that the party will approve the $ 3.5 trillion bill, noting that it has “already made a commitment” after previously seeking a $ 6 trillion plan.
“After a lot of negotiations and pain, and I will be on the phone all week, what we will do is approve the most comprehensive bill this country has ever seen for working families,” he said.
He predicted the $ 3.5 trillion package would go through the Senate with the 50 Democrats supporting it, and Vice President Harris broke the tie.