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Manchin 'open' to $3.5 trillion Democratic budget deal
The Hill ^ | 07/14/2021 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 07/14/2021 12:49:07 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Wednesday he’s open to the $3.5 trillion spending agreement reached by Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee, which would be entirely paid for with yet to be specified tax measures, but he’s holding back on fully endorsing the deal until further review.

Manchin’s cautious optimism about the agreement means that Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) two-track strategy for moving President Biden’s infrastructure agenda is still moving in the right direction.

“I heard about it this morning or late last night from my staff,” Manchin told reporters on Wednesday. “So, we’re anxious to basically review it. They worked hard on it, we want to see it. Also, I’ve been very clear that I want to see the pay-fors and make sure that whatever we do is globally competitive.”

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KEYWORDS: budget; deal; manchin; open
Centrist Joe Manchin???? Ok then....
1 posted on 07/14/2021 12:49:08 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I want to see the pay-fors and make sure that whatever we do is globally competitive

OK, sure

2 posted on 07/14/2021 12:50:27 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pure fiscal insanity. My God, these bureaucrats are sending us to hell.


3 posted on 07/14/2021 12:50:55 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We knew all along he was a whore, he was just haggling over the price


4 posted on 07/14/2021 12:54:03 PM PDT by The Louiswu ( No one is immune to the after-effects of girls, cocaine, and dry martinis.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The media will portray Manchin as America’s hero if he signs on to this.

Manchin’s presence in the Senate is why socialist Bernie Sanders is now the Chairman of the Budget Committee. But he successfully portrays himself as a “Centrist Democrat” to get WV voters to keep electing him.


5 posted on 07/14/2021 12:55:18 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Dims LIED TO THE REPUBLICANS JUST LAST WEEK.

Does the pea=brain Manchin think they won’t LIE To HIM??

I think Manchin is a deceitful phony and someone said he was a whore...couldn’t be more accurate.


6 posted on 07/14/2021 12:59:53 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ChicagoConservative27

boycotting the senate runoffs in GA was such a brilliant idea.


7 posted on 07/14/2021 1:03:10 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Maris Crane
"I think Manchin is a deceitful phony and someone said he was a whore...couldn't be more accurate."

Manchin's price will be sufficient to insure that he will never have to pay a personal price for helping to ruin the economy. He will be one of the pampered princes who will look down on the starving proletariat when buckets of dollars may buy a loaf of bread.

8 posted on 07/14/2021 1:05:38 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

I guess that means that you think he will never be sorry for what he did.


9 posted on 07/14/2021 1:08:32 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I had the same reaction.


10 posted on 07/14/2021 1:11:07 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: Maris Crane
No, I think he is out for Joe Manchin and intends to make sure he is on some version of Mount Olympus looking down on the teaming, dependant multitudes.
11 posted on 07/14/2021 1:14:12 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: ChicagoConservative27
...which would be entirely paid for with yet to be specified tax measures...

Sounds like another pig-in-a-poke to me.

12 posted on 07/14/2021 1:37:10 PM PDT by econjack
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To: The Louiswu

I see him not so much as a whore, as out to get everything he can for his constituents, and devil take the details. You *know* there is going to be a whole hell of a lot of pork headed his way.


13 posted on 07/14/2021 1:39:32 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (NUKE MECCA. ABOLISH THE DEA, IRS, AND ATF)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers!”

$3 trillion is small ball, we need a $3 gazillion.


14 posted on 07/14/2021 1:39:46 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Guess the check cleared.


15 posted on 07/14/2021 1:53:09 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: ChicagoConservative27
which would be entirely paid for with yet to be specified tax measures,

In others words, will use more borrowed money.

16 posted on 07/14/2021 2:50:53 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No biggie, it’s only Monopoly Money printed in China.


17 posted on 07/14/2021 2:53:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Biden - Make American Grovel Again...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin "

With that vile expulsion of stinking gas, there is no need to read any further...

Fake News & Propaganda Alert!

18 posted on 07/14/2021 3:02:16 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: JohnBrowdie

“boycotting the senate runoffs in GA was such a brilliant idea.”

Have you read about Georgia elections? 100 percent of Republicans could have voted and the Dems would have won. Say hello to the Easter Bunny for me.


19 posted on 07/14/2021 3:35:08 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

that is factually incorrect, and a little bit retarded.


20 posted on 07/14/2021 4:00:47 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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