Biden Takes a Swipe at Joe Manchin and Twists the Truth Into a Pretzel
By Nick Arama | Mar 04, 2022 10:45 PM ET
Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill went down in flames months ago, but he was still trying to push it during his State of the Union address, just with a slightly new name “Building America Better” (as though Americans couldn’t tell it was the same warmed-over stuff that went down in defeat).
The main reason it failed was it was a spend-arama that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) couldn’t go along with. You can’t put lipstick on a pig and make it look better but that’s exactly what Joe Biden is trying to do.
But what he told interviewer Heather Cox Richardson as to why people should go along with him was quietly hilarious. He took a swipe at Joe Manchin in the process.
From Daily Mail:
‘The Build Back Better piece. What people don’t realize, mainly because one senator from West Virginia talks about how it’s all social spending – well, you know, all the money in Build Back Better provisions, there is about $500 billion of it is for the environment,’ he said in the Substack interview.
‘Five hundred billion is for the environment. But the other parts are for the best way to deal with people who have been getting the short end of the stick, as they say, for a long time,’ Biden told the Boston College historian.
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