Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said the West Virginia Democrat is 'gonna have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia' because he 'doesn't have the guts to stand up to powerful special interests'
Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he will vote against the Build Back Better Act rocked the political world on Sunday, with Democrats slamming their fellow colleague while Republicans celebrated the centrist senator's decision, which effectively kills the party's chances of passing the behemoth legislation.is "gonna have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia" because he "doesn't have the guts to stand up to powerful special interests.
"We cannot allow one lone senator from West Virginia to obstruct the president's agenda, to obstruct the people's agenda. Jake, all I want for Christmas is a senator that has compassion for the American people and not contempt," Pressley added. the Democrats' roughly $2 trillion social spending and climate package, telling Fox News' Bret Baier on "I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, I just can't.""I tried everything humanly possible, I can't get there," he added on "Fox News Sunday," later saying "this is a no on this legislation.
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