Moderate Democrat Senator Joe Manchin is now signaling his potential support for a far-left bill that would attempt to use a process known as reconciliation to bypass Senate rules.
As The Hill reports:
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he’s supportive of going forward with a larger, Democratic-only infrastructure bill, but that it shouldn’t be linked to a separate bipartisan framework.
Manchin, during an interview with MSNBC, said that he had been assuming since “day one” that Democrats would have to use reconciliation, a budget process that allows them to bypass a 60-vote legislative filibuster, to pass a larger infrastructure bill because Republicans don’t want to make changes to the 2017 tax bill.
“We’re going to have to work it through reconciliation, which I’ve agreed that that can be done. I just haven’t agreed on the amount, because I haven’t seen everything that everyone is wanting to put in the bill,” Manchin said on MSNBC.
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Manchin’s comments come after he told reporters late last week that he viewed a Democratic-only reconciliation bill as “inevitable,” handing a significant boost to Democrats’ strategy.
Manchin’s announcement is bad news for the many Republicans who were hoping the West Virginia Democrat would potentially stand in the way of Biden’s radical agenda.
Wonder who pressured him?? RINOs & Dems.
Hehe, lets just get deeper in debt. I wonder why they keep voting for these sped and tax candidates.
Virginia must vote or recall this lowlife POS.
That’s West Virginia. But good luck getting the hillbillies to kick him out
Manchin is a typical lying Democrat. You cannot believe anything he says. How many times has he said he would not support this bill? I have never, until now, heard him say he will support it. He has done this same thing in the past. I do not remember the bill, but he vowed he would not support it. When the vote took place, he was right there to support it. He is a jackass who cannot be trusted no matter what he says. West Virginia, I would be looking for another candidate to represent me in Washington.
I used to think him an “independent” and a “moderate”. Not any longer. He represents West Virginia, perhaps the “reddest” state in the union. They voted for Trump by 70%. He knows this and wants to hold onto his seat, maybe more!
I believe he is a “Leftists” and supports Socialism.
If he really believed in Traditional American Values and did his job of REPRESENTING his constituents not his corrupted Party.
He should either resign from the Senate or at least, from his Party.
But, alas, he will do neither. Why, because he like the power position he is in. ME FIRST!
COWARD.
Manchin, would be working a used car lot at the end of town in the poor part , talking CRAP , and LYING BIG TIME, if it were not for his job as a elected corrupt demo-communist politician.
Isn’t all this massive spending going to come crashing down in a huge depression and guess whose backs the CHEATER criminal Democrat Party Mob leadership is going to use to bail them all out??? WE, THE “SUCKER AMERICAN TAPXPAYERS”!!! It is just a matter of time!!!! YOU ALL ARE WARNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The old bait and switch, he was supposed to be the ‘moderate’, yeah right. There isn’t and never was any moderate Dems. All scripted choreographed, he has no intention of keeping his socialist party in check.
Manchin is trying to appease his Democrat friends and stay nice with Republicans in his state too. He is in for a rude awakening…
Joe ? Same name as the goof
He will betray his word
What a doofus!
I’m surprised at Manchin. He is facing the real possibility of loosing an election in the red state he represents. wonder what he sold for.
Pie in the sky, your mansion in the sky Delta, infrastructure money will go to nebulous funding which is most probably cronie’s wallets for a new house at the Lake, a second Bently, a new yacht, junkets to Hawaii, Italy, the Cote de Azur and disguised as the new gentle persuasion force in place of the police and other utopian dreams of the elitist oligarchy . We must study the problem over dining and drinks at the resort and please fund our bodyguards while we vilify and defund the police. When did a nickel of federal money ever go to the City police? The left guarantees you will get your rewards tomorrow. What a plan ( the same plan is describd in George Orwell’s Animal Farm ). Beware the Judas goat folks!
This is not an infrastructure bill, it is pork for the communist democrats to bankrupt our economy!