Posted on 09/15/2021 10:07:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden reportedly issued a stern warning to Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin over his reluctance to back a multi-trillion-dollar COVID-19 stimulus package.
According to a new book, Biden called Manchin on March 5, the eve of the Senate’s vote on the package to convince him to join Democrats.
“If you don’t come along, you’re really f***ing me,” the president allegedly told Manchin, according to The Washington Post’s associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa, who co-wrote the new book, “Peril.”
At the time, Manchin, a moderate, was considered the key swing vote after he expressed concerns about the high cost of the package.
“On the day of the alleged phone call, Manchin compromised with his fellow Senate Democrats over a disagreement involving an unemployment benefits proposal included in the package,” the Daily Caller reported. “Democrats supported funding $400 of weekly unemployment benefits, while the West Virginia senator supported a proposal offered by Republican Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, that would have only included $300 benefits through July 18.”
Back in May, the House passed a $3 trillion COVID-19 relief package back, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still trying to pass a $3.5 trillion COVID-19 spending package, according to Forbes.
Biden is set to meet Wednesday with Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) as he tries to win support for the economic plan.
The president will speak separately to Manchin and Sinema, CNBC reported. “Both lawmakers have criticized the proposed $3.5 trillion price tag, and Manchin has called on party leaders to delay votes on the legislation.”
The meetings come at a pivotal point for an agenda that Democrats hope will offer a lifeline to households and stymie Republican efforts to win control of Congress next year. Party leaders gave congressional committees a Wednesday deadline to write their portions of the bill, and they hope to send it to Biden’s desk in the coming weeks.
Democrats have to navigate a political maze before they can pass what they call the biggest investment in the social safety net in decades. While the party does not need a GOP vote to approve the bill through budget reconciliation, a single Democratic defection can sink it in the Senate, giving Manchin and Sinema massive leverage to shape the plan.
Woodward’s new book contains interviews with more than 200 people and is set to be released next week, Fox Business reported. The Post report contained some explosive claims.
“Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump’s top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to ‘Peril,’ a new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward and veteran Washington Post reporter Robert Costa,” said the article. “Woodward and Costa write that Milley, deeply shaken by the assault, ‘was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.’”
“Milley worried that Trump could ‘go rogue,’ the authors write. ‘You never know what a president’s trigger point is,’ Milley told his senior staff, according to the book,” said the Post.
Take it like a man, Joe! Take it like a man!
He must have seen the signs.
(FYJB)
Don’t worry, PedoJoe...Manchin will cave. You just need to add a few more zeros (to the check, not to your cabinet — the latter has quite enough zeros).
Manchin better watch it or he might wind up being the next right-wing radio host to die of Covid.
Manchin to joe.
F@ck biden!
😁
Can’t wait for Biden to start spewing vulgarities at future public appearances
Funny thing is that is exactly what Biden’s niece said about Hunter
-PJ
I’ll tell you who is really F***ed, it’s us. But we’ll just sit and take it like we always do. Inflation is the highest in my lifetime, oil approaching $73 today and gold is down again. Interests rates are still near zero and they are printing money like crazy. Add to that, the markets are completely irrational. When the time comes to pay the piper, all of our life savings and achievements will be swept away. The ones that will benefit are the ones who were irresponsible and never thought about anything but today.
He is actually trying to save the Dems
Inflation is out of control. The last thing the US should be doing is dumping $3.5 trillion more fuel on the inflation fire
Every pork barrel is a “stimulus plan” now.
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These are the people who enabled this.
Dan Sullivan (R-AK) Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) Mike Crapo (R-ID) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Richard Burr (R-NC) Deb Fischer (R-NE) Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Rob Portman (R-OH) Thom Tillis (R-NC) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Jim Risch (R-ID) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Kevin Cramer (R-ND) Roger Wicker (R-MS) Mitch McConnell (R-KY) John Hoeven (R-ND) Susan Collins (R-ME) Mitt Romney (R-UT)
They knew when they were voting for the $1.2 trillion they were enabling the bigger, worse one.
Yep you are 100% correct
The Dems are trying to INFLATE THEIR WAY OUT OF DEBT.
They have done it many times in the past.
The Chinese will not be happy.......................
No surprise the Christe clones are here with their whine at the GOP always postings
You people are the best propaganda bots the Democrat’s have working for them.
How about you surprise us ONE time and fight your Democrat party masters on anything?
I don’t know if he invented it, but Woodward has perfected the practice of manufactured, fake, narrative journalism.
Its not journalism, its story-telling or hollywood script-writing, woven together out of some unknowable amount of reality.
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