The 'Last Week Tonight' host criticized Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia for delaying the Build Back Better Act: 'It is a big deal and would make this country a better place,' Oliver said.
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However, in simple terms, Oliver noted that to pass the bill and avoid a filibuster, every single Democrat senator must be on board. Yet Sinema and Manchin need the support from their more progressive counterparts to pass a related $1 trillion public works bill that they want to pass. He also showed footage of a group of people who’d kayaked to talk to Manchin while he was aboard his yacht. He was asked by one of them what he plans to do about poverty, and he emphasized it was a priority — again, while aboard his yacht. “I’m not sure which stage of capitalism we’ve reached if we’re now kayaking out to a politician’s yacht to beg him to help the poor, but it’s got to be one of the last ones,” Oliver said.
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