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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My guess is that Manchin has decided not to run for re-election in 2024. The only way he could hope to get re-elected in deep-red W.Va. was to be anti-Biden, anti-woke. The energy and climate change legislation is very unpopular in W.Va. If he’s not seeking re-election then we’re in danger of him backing other far-left bills.
Core CPI is unlikely to decrease the next two months
Bingo. The brain drain will soon start to flow from the decayed US/EU Empire to the energy- and resource-rich BRICS nations.
You made a DEAL with the DEVIL, Joe!
It’s looking more and more like we wont retake the Senate because of weak candidates in Georgia and Penn. So this is Manchin’s last chance to have a say in what passes.
More borrowing from the 1970s Carter playbook!
This will definitely put the ‘stag’ in front of inflation!
Stagflation here we come!
Do they even have a different playbook?
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They changed the vill’s name from “Build Back Better” to “The Inflation Reduction Act”
“Oh! Then we’re for it!!” /s
Ever!!!!
Nailed it.
Fox reporting at top of the hour...Miss Ann has it nailed.
Where does that leave Senator Sinema...Does she have an off-setting vote?
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The Republicans run to give them their deals on guns, for instance.
Why are they working with these people?
Why the desire to accommodate the Left? The Dems don’t do that.
I see Cornyn criticizing this and he just recruited others to give the Dems their Gun bill.
Maybe he has some grandchildren that he loves.
OH HURRAH!!! Just what we need. The democrats to do something.
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Heck, maybe a rematch is in order. Morrissey got a huge majority for AG in 2020. Too bad he’d have to give up his AG race to run for the Senate. But an opportunity like this doesn’t grow on trees. And US Senator has a ring to it that WV AG doesn’t quite match. Maybe he’s got his eye on Governor.
Notwithstanding a few diversions, designed to make him look like a maverick, somehow interested in what's best for our fine Country, his loyalties are with the Dems, I so strongly suspect.
Old Joe just pretends to be a moderate.
The guy with Maserati and yacht turned out to not be a friend of the working man? I’m shocked.
The check cleared.
LOL. So many idiots here said he should become a Repug. LOL.
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