One day after he sent the Democratic Party reeling by announcing he will not support the $1.7 trillion package, Manchin leaned further into his opposition to the bill, making clear he has no plans of reversing course.
Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday blamed White House staff for the breakdown in negotiations over President Biden's Build Back Better agenda and doubled down on his commitment to tanking the bill.He was however, noncommittal on whether he could potentially get behind a scaled down version of the measure.
He also criticized leadership's strategy, arguing they wrongly assumed "surely we can move one person, surely we can badger and beat one person up." Manchin also said he made clear to Democratic leadership that he disagreed with their approach of treating legislation "as if you have 55 or 60 senators that are Democrats, and you can do whatever you want."Asked about whether there is still a place
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