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Manchin Pulls Support from $2 Trillion Biden Bill

December 21st, 2021 by WCBC Radio

Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia said this weekend  he cannot back his party’s signature $2 trillion social and environment bill, dealing a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden’s leading domestic initiative heading into an election year when Democrats’ narrow hold on Congress was already in peril…

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders  said if Manchin wants to oppose the legislation he  should have the opportunity to do so with a floor vote as soon as the Senate returns…