Posted on 12/19/2021 9:20:28 AM PST by RandFan
Senator Manchin’s comments this morning on FOX are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances.
Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington, to support the Build Back Better framework that the President then subsequently announced. Senator Manchin pledged repeatedly to negotiate on finalizing that framework “in good faith.”
On Tuesday of this week, Senator Manchin came to the White House and submitted—to the President, in person, directly—a written outline for a Build Back Better bill that was the same size and scope as the President’s framework, and covered many of the same priorities. While that framework was missing key priorities, we believed it could lead to a compromise acceptable to all. Senator Manchin promised to continue conversations in the days ahead, and to work with us to reach that common ground. If his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate.
Senator Manchin claims that this change of position is related to inflation, but the think tank he often cites on Build Back Better—the Penn Wharton Budget Institute—issued a report less than 48 hours ago that noted the Build Back Better Act will have virtually no impact on inflation in the short term, and, in the long run, the policies it includes will ease inflationary pressures. Many leading economists with whom Senator Manchin frequently consults also support Build Back Better.
Build Back Better lowers costs that families pay. It will reduce what families pay for child care. It will reduce what they pay for prescription drugs. It will lower health care premiums. And it puts a tax cut in the pockets of families with kids. If someone is concerned about the impact that higher prices are having on families, this bill gives them a break.
Senator Manchin cited deficit concerns in his statement. But the plan is fully paid for, is the most fiscally responsible major bill that Congress has considered in years, and reduces the deficit in the long run. The Congressional Budget Office report that the Senator cites analyzed an unfunded extension of Build Back Better. That’s not what the President has proposed, not the bill the Senate would vote on, and not what the President would support. Senator Manchin knows that: The President has told him that repeatedly, including this week, face to face.
Likewise, Senator Manchin’s statement about the climate provisions in Build Back Better are wrong. Build Back Better will produce a job-creating clean energy future for this country—including West Virginia.
Just as Senator Manchin reversed his position on Build Back Better this morning, we will continue to press him to see if he will reverse his position yet again, to honor his prior commitments and be true to his word.
In the meantime, Senator Manchin will have to explain to those families paying $1,000 a month for insulin why they need to keep paying that, instead of $35 for that vital medicine. He will have to explain to the nearly two million women who would get the affordable day care they need to return to work why he opposes a plan to get them the help they need. Maybe Senator Manchin can explain to the millions of children who have been lifted out of poverty, in part due to the Child Tax Credit, why he wants to end a program that is helping achieve this milestone—we cannot.
We are proud of what we have gotten done in 2021: the American Rescue Plan, the fastest decrease in unemployment in U.S. history, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, over 200 million Americans vaccinated, schools reopened, the fastest rollout of vaccines to children anywhere in the world, and historic appointments to the Federal judiciary.
But we will not relent in the fight to help Americans with their child care, health care, prescription drug costs, and elder care—and to combat climate change. The fight for Build Back Better is too important to give up. We will find a way to move forward next year.
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Wow. What a bunch of whining.
Yikes you’re right! The evil is showing.
I guess it’s a real bitch to get back the exact treatment you give to others.
Don’t insult Peppermint Patty!
To me she looks more like Scut Farkus of “A Christmas Story.”
“In the meantime, Senator Manchin will have to explain to those families paying $1,000 a month for insulin why they need to keep paying that, instead of $35 for that vital medicine.”
Are they referring to the Trump era prices that were IMMEDIATELY jacked back up as soon as FOTUS Pedo Joe was sworn in?
Those prices?
[and Epi-pens, too]
Why yes, yes he did.
Instantly.
*And no one on the left, who used to cry about those high prices that Trump FIXED said one damn thing about them skyrocketing again.
Not. One.
“Sucks to be Jen.”
that’s why she’s called Jen Sucky
I was watching Ryan Rainman’s Repairs on yotuube and he called his lying customer “the jen Sucky circle back”.
He’s a gutless two bit slime ball playing both sides.
She was Obama's Communications Director during his last two years in office.
After Obama, she spent four years at CNN as a political commentator, until the Biden transition team hired her in 2020.
Wisely, she did not join Biden until AFTER he won.
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There was nothing stopping them from addressing problems like that on their own without being tied to ridiculous political expenditures. In truth, they only care about those ‘problems’ and cry about them when they can’t pass their bloated Omnibus Theft Bill. Oh, and for good measure, they always have to throw in “and for Climate Change, too.”
All issues that the Administration has with Manchin likely hinges on that one statement.
And just to be clear-Manchin has a "D" after his name, and because the meaning of that in today's political landscape, I don't trust him in any way, shape, or form.
And if the fact that we have to depend on someone like him to save the economic future or our country is just indicative of what a precarious state we are in.
I do not want him to become a republican. I'd love to see him get beat in his next primary by a radical democrat that simply can't win in the general election.
Manchin sides with the democrats on most issues - that speaks volumes to me.
With that, I'll still take this victory, no matter how short-lived it might be.
Isn’t Joe’s daughter the Cruella de Vill of the epi pen fame?
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