Why I Won’t Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion

Wall Street Journal Opinion Page ^ | 9/2/2021 | By Joe Manchin

[NohSpinZone]

Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation. A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not. While some have suggested this reconciliation legislation must be passed now, I believe that making budgetary decisions under artificial political deadlines never leads to good policy or sound decisions. I have always said if I can’t explain it, I can’t vote for it, and I can’t explain why my Democratic colleagues are rushing to spend $3.5 trillion.

[NohSpinZone]

Well, Joe, let's see how you hold up when Chuckie and Nanzi twist the vice grip on your privates...figuratively speaking (maybe, never know with Dimms).

[brownsfan]

Wow, Manchin really wants a pile of cash this time.

[Mygirlsmom]

He will either Stupak this or a friendly RINO will do it for him

[Don Corleone]

What does your wife have to say about it

[apillar]

Well, Joe, let's see how you hold up when Chuckie and Nanzi twist the vice grip on your privates...figuratively speaking (maybe, never know with Dimms).

Or offer him a couple billion for the "Joe Manchin Federal Building" in West Virginia. I trust Joe's "convictions" about as far as I could throw him...

[CivilWarBrewing]

So far I can't criticize Manchin or Kristin Sinema.

If they stop the DemonRat's CLOWARD & PIVEN strategy aimed at BANKRUPTING AMERICA ON BEHALF OF CHINA, they are heroes in my book.

[Carriage Hill]

UpChuck & Nazi have him by the shorthairs; he’ll always cave. He’s one of the peripheral Deep Staters.

[JonPreston]

He won't go a dollar over $3.45 trillion.

You guys still buying his act?

[DAC21]

Hahaha, He is just throwing that out there for the low information, low attention span South Carolinians.

[DAC21]

“Hahaha, He is just throwing that out there for the low information, low attention span South Carolinians”

My applies to South Carolinians, West Virginians are not off the hook.

[EEGator]

I think we have Sinema as well.

[DAC21]

gee wiz, had on one drink. “Apologies”

[PGR88]

Manchin was dealt a royal flush and he’s going to play it for all its worth.

He will tell West Virginians he’s a fiscal conservative, while squeezing Chuck and Nancy for every last printed dollar for West Virginia, his cronies and himself.

[TChad]

Thanks for the words, Joe. We’ll see if you stand behind them.

[PerConPat]

That, or he and Sinema could possibly be in great bargaining positions to squeeze out some pork. LOL...Maybe Romney is too.

[RichyTea]

Joe really knows how to get voters behind him when he speaks with common sense. I have lived in the Philadelphia / South Jersey area for 78 years. I hear about Joe often - he sounds good when it does not count and then folds like a cheap suit.

Maybe he will have the cajunes to back up his talk with action. I hope.

[PTBAA]

“3.4 trillion is my absolute limit!”

[CPT Clay]

yes

[JerseyDvl]

What a friggin hero.

[RoseofTexas]

Yep! Stinking rat! Says one thing and then turns around and stabs his constituents in the back. This guy is all talk POS!