Manchin shrugs off Sanders' climate rebuke as Democrats make peace with health care-only bill.
Sen. Joe Manchin and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito pay respects to Hershel Woodrow Woody Williams in the United States Capitol Rotunda during a Congressional tribute ceremony on July 14, 2022, in Washington, D.C.With Joe Manchin's stamp of approval in the closely divided Senate, President Joe Biden and Democratic Party leaders are ready for the chamber to move forward before the next recess on a slimmed-down spending bill that focuses on health care. But not all Senate Democrats feel the same.
FILE PHOTO: Senator Ron Wyden speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 19, 2021. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoAs for Sanders' criticism that he was "intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda," Manchin was asked Monday to respond and said: "I've been at this a long time. People say things some times they might not mean, and I don't take it personally.
"If they do prescription drugs, give them credit, that's a good issue," Durbin said Monday. "But we've spent a lot of time wasted in negotiation."Other Democrats also signaled Monday that they're prepared to swallow a package that excludes climate and spending. "Washington Democrats are working right now to find a way to put more bureaucracy between American patients and the treatments they rely on. They want to put socialist price controls between American innovators and new cures for debilitating diseases," McConnell said Monday. "With one-party Democratic control of government they just might get away with it, but our colleagues need to think again.
But Democrats are running out of time and know that after the monthlong August recess they must return with a focus on funding the government by Oct. 1, nearly always a fraught process. November's midterm elections come soon after that.
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