Slimy Joe Manchin is NOT a moderate, like the media and communist Democrats try and pretend that he is. Like Sinema, Manchin is nothing more than a poor actor, trying to get all the attention for himself and will eventually cave to communist Democrats. Remember a few days ago letter he signed with Chuck Schumer that would not agree to spending over $1.5 trillion. yet, suddenly, Manchin slug is considering nearly $2 trillion. It’s only a matter of time before both he and Sinema cave.
Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday signaled he is open to a budget reconciliation bill in the ballpark of $1.9 trillion to $2.2 trillion, above the limit he set just last week of $1.5 trillion.
Manchin and his fellow moderate Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) are still far apart from liberals such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who thought the upper chamber had a deal to spend $3.5 trillion on President Biden’s human infrastructure package, but the two sides are inching closer.
“I’m not ruling anything out, but the bottom line is I want to make sure that we’re strategic and we do the right job and we don’t basically add more to the concerns we have right now,” Manchin told reporters Tuesday.
It was a small departure from his position last week when he announced: “My top-line has been $1.5 [trillion].”
He also told reporters last week that he doesn’t want “to change our whole society to an entitlement mentality.”
Manchin’s comments last week sparked a backlash from progressives, though his Democratic Senate colleagues have been careful not to criticize him for fear of angering a key vote.
But while Manchin has signaled some flexibility on the top-line number, there are a number of significant disagreements still to resolve with fellow Democrats.