Seems flip-flopping communist Democrat Joe Manchin can’t make up his mind on just how communist he wants to be. Yesterday, early in the day he said he would support the payoff to blue states in the $1.9 trillion “COVID” bill. Now all of a sudden, Manchin says he wouldn’t support it as long as the bill includes $15 minimum wage for burger flippers. Apparently Manchin is now a favorite on the Trump hating Fox News propaganda channel.
| Flip-flopping communist Democrat Manchin says he wouldn’t vote for 1.9 trillioon COVID bill with $15 minimum wage |
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.On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) criticized the minimum wage increase and funding for state and local governments in President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief proposal and said that he will not vote for a coronavirus relief package on a party-line vote.
Manchin said, “I don’t think that’s [a minimum wage increase to $15] going to make it in. Because it doesn’t fit within…the Byrd Rule. The only thing we can do during this reconciliation is anything that comes within the financial realms of what we’re dealing with. It’s called a budget reconciliation. It has to be within the budget lines. That does not come within that at all. And it really needs to be debated. It doesn’t work in — different states are different. Some states already have $15. I think anybody that goes to work in the morning and works 40 hours a week and works 50 weeks a year, that’s 2,000 hours, should be above, a family of three, above the poverty guidelines. And that’s not $15.”
Manchin also stated, “We have to look at” the funding amount for state and local governments and that the $350 billion figure in Biden’s proposal is “way high. From everything I’ve seen, that’s extremely high.”