Report: Joe Manchin Resumes Negotiations on Build Back Better

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Report: Joe Manchin Resumes Negotiations on Build Back Better

Paul Bois 2 Jan 2022

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has reportedly resumed negotiations with the White House on President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda after essentially torpedoing it before the Christmas break.

According to Axios, sources confirmed that the senator has reportedly engaged with the White House “on the climate and child care provisions” in the president’s signature piece of legislation “if the White House removes the enhanced child tax credit from the $1.75 trillion package — or dramatically lowers the income caps for eligible families.”

Sen. Manchin has not publicly confirmed whether or not he has resumed negotiations with the president.

Sources familiar with the situation said that many of his objections to the bill still stand, including the “size and scope” of the package, the possible $4 trillion price tag over the next ten years, and the potential for raised inflation.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/02/report-manchin-resumes-negotiations-build-back-better/

[The_Reader_David]

That would hardly be surprising.  He didn't oppose the whole thing, just (according to what we can glean from published reports) the "green" part and the overall cost.  If Biden (or his handlers) hadn't had the delusion that a squeaker of a Presidential win, a diminished majority in the House and only holding the Senate by the VP's tie-breaker role was a mandate for radical change, they'd have never gone along with the left wing of the party in offering that bloated bill and would have put forward something Manchin would have supported from the beginning.