Manchin says he can't support Biden's $3.5 trillion spending plan

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Manchin says he can't support Biden's $3.5 trillion spending plan
By Olafimihan Oshin - 09/12/21 09:36 AM EDT

Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key moderate Democrat, said on Sunday that he can't support President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan.

"We don't have the need to rush into this and get it done within one week because there's some deadline we're meeting or someone's going to fall through the cracks," Manchin said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

"I want to make sure that children are getting taken care of, that people are basically having an opportunity to go back to work. We have 11 million jobs that we haven't filled, 8 million people still unemployed. Something's not matching up there."

Manchin also said he would look at adjusting the tax code first if he were writing the bill from scratch.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/571874-sen-manchin-said-he-wont-support-bidens-35-trillion-spending-plan

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Democrats see $3.5T spending goal is slipping away

There’s a growing realization among Democrats that their plans for a $3.5 trillion spending package to reshape the nation’s social safety net and to tackle climate change will have to be slimmed down because of anxious centrists worried about the 2022 midterms.

Democrats by and large feel confident that President Biden’s ambitious “human” infrastructure agenda has strong public support and that a majority of Americans favor raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy to help pay for it.

But there’s also a recognition that moderate Democrats in swing states and districts need to show they’re shaping the emerging reconciliation package.


And a part of that process may be slimming down the package from the $3.5 trillion goal set last month by the Senate- and House-passed budget resolutions.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/571780-democrats-see-35t-spending-goal-is-slipping-away