Posted on 03/08/2021 7:38:05 AM PST by knighthawk
Joe Manchin, 73, won't accept a simple majority rule in the Senate, threatening in a Monday clip to block Joe Biden's next massive legislative overhaul if Democrats don't allow Republicans a seat at the negotiating table.
The centrist West Virginia Democratic senator told 'Axios on HBO' in an interview clip released Monday that he will demand the GOP have a bigger voice on Biden's climate and infrastructure package – which could reach an outstanding $4 trillion – than they had on COVID stimulus.
'I'm not going to do it through reconciliation,' Manchin told Axios' Mike Allen when speaking of the next bill. 'I am not going to get on a bill that cuts them out completely before we start.'
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For Climate Change? Really? As Mohammad Zia ul-Haq once said, that's peanuts.
Make it $40 trillion, and we can start talking.
Virtual signaling putz
he will cave once the dems give the big pharma something in return
He is just looking for the best deal
I thought that Reconciliation could only be used once per session? Am I wrong?
Make it $40 trillion, and we can start talking.
$40 Trillion is chump change
Why not make it $400 Trillion?
Joe Manchin: I won’t accept a simple majority rule in the Senate.
(Manchin then takes a phone call.)
Joe Manchin: I will accept a simple majority rule in the Senate.
The only question is what will be in that phone call. A threat? A bribe? We’ll never know.
It seems we are being punished by having such rotten scums in DC destroy our once great nation. One well placed asteroid from space would suffice.
Until Manchin’s hometown gets a 250billion dollar bridge to no where
He’s so full of it, he stinks. Manchin cares about one thing and one thing only, Manchin. If Chuckie tells him to shut his pie hole and fall in line, he will. This is just kabuki to make it look like the Dems are deliberative and considering impacts.
I hate them so much.
Manchin again signaling Schumer and Pelosi - this is MY time to get paid. Everything goes through me!
“It seems we are being punished by having such rotten scums in DC destroy our once great nation. “
We are, and we did it to ourselves. Conservatives fled public schools because of the quality of education. The left filled the void, and then the indoctrination began in earnest.
So here we are, a stone stupid public that supports evil scum as their elected officials. In the grand scheme, we deserve every bit of it.
we wouldn’t be talking about this if we hadn’t boycotted away two senate seats in GA in the runoff.
it simply wouldn’t be an issue. turtle would have simply not taken the bill up from the house. if you don’t already miss having poor, stupid turtle as the senate majority leader, you’re insane.
we did this to ourselves.
I can tell you that WV is already standing under the tree with the rope. Even this stall is not enough to get him elected again.
That works too!
No diff to me with any of those numbers.
Meanwhile Sen. Manchurin doesn't understand what Schumer is really doing is sliming Manchurin in WVa, willing to trade a loss there for the 3-4 GOP members stupid enough to negotiate the fraud of climate change.
He’s holding out for some goodies for himself.
Nonsense.
The two GA Sinate seats were stolen just as much as the November 3 POTUS, and likely many other less documented steals for GOV, House and Sinate seats.
$40 Trillion is chump change
Why not make it $400 Trillion?
$1 quadrillion. Go broke or go home.
I believe this as well
Without “reconciliation”, it takes 60 votes in the senate.
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