West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin did the “Full Ginsburg” on Sunday’s political talk show circuit, promising that his surprise support of a new spending bill won’t cause add…
Reduction Act of 2022” will decrease price inflation and will not raise taxes on the average American household. That assessment has been challenged by Republican and in a report by the nonpartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation.Meet the PressFor Fox News Sunday, Manchin assured, “I’m just going to fight like the dickens to make sure this piece of legislation gives us relief and fights inflation and is great for America.
Manchin said negotiations have been going on for months regarding the spending bill. The West Virginia Senator was one of two Democrats to oppose the original $2 trillion “Build Back Better” plan, which Manchin and another critics saw as highly inflationary. “But the bottom line was we reduced it and scrubbed it clear down to 739 . Nothing inflammatory in that piece of legislation,” Manchin said. Democrats will try to pass the spending plan through reconciliation, a legislative tactic that will allow them to bypass the usual 60-vote threshold for approving legislation.
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