Posted on 07/27/2022 2:34:22 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an unexpected turnabout, Sen. Joe Manchin announced Wednesday that he had reached an expansive agreement with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer which had eluded them for months on health care costs, energy and climate issues, taxing higher earners and large corporations and reducing federal debt.
Manchin, D-W.Va., whose resistance had long derailed sweeping legislation on those issues, abruptly revealed the agreement in a press release. It provided virtually no details on the accord.
There was no immediate explanation why Manchin had suddenly agreed to the far broader package. In December, his resistance derailed a wide-ranging $3.5 trillion, 10-year social and environment bill that was President Joe Biden’s top domestic priority.
In his statement, Manchin said the measure “would dedicate hundreds of billions of dollars to deficit reduction by adopting a tax policy that protects small businesses and working-class Americans while ensuring that large corporations and the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share in taxes.”
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Someone obviously deposited a dead fish on the doorstep of his boathouse.
Bohica
The deal will also break up Taggart Transcontinental and Rearden Steel into smaller enterprises in the interest of fairness.
“would dedicate hundreds of billions of dollars to deficit reduction by adopting a tax policy that protects small businesses and working-class Americans”
Right...bend over everybody.
More likely, the proper amount of currency was deposited in his secret offshore bank account.
Manchin is a whore.
With apologies to actual streetwalkers, who by comparison are far more honorable.
...and just like that, the bribe was paid.
And yet another suitcase of cash to launder or hide on the houseboat...
Can I just say, “censored for your reading protection” here?
I’ll hold my tongue because the details are currently unknown, but something doesn’t seem quite right. Did Machin finally get an offer he had been holding out for?
Wait! I thought the Munchkin was an honorable man?
Never trust ANY politician..EVER!
We’re three kinds of screwed now
Like any whore he will do anything if the price is right.
There’s always one bonehead person on our side who is
convinced they are going to pull off the deal of the
century, with their wizardry, just before they do, for
the other side.
more spending should help with the inflation
higher taxes should help with the recession
and if the green raw deal is in there we are all screwed
stagflation will be the least of our worries
“Shame on the mess.........”
The ONLY time we are safe is when Congress is not in session.
What is more likely? That Manchin gave up his principles or that the liberals caved because they are looking at loosing seats and see that the economic concerns that Manchin warned about are coming true.
Manchin seems to think Chuck Schumer is an unselfish humble servant of the American people and would never dream of sending out his enforcers to ask for something in return during a power play deal in DC.
Everyone can dream.
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