The World According to Joe Manchin
Surprise! The Democratic Party’s favorite contrarian Senator is refusing to pass Build Back Better.
“Joe Manchin Just Tore Out the Heart of Biden’s Agenda,” lamented Rolling Stone this morning. The sentiment was echoed across social media as liberal journalists and pundits decried Manchin’s deflection, a bomb he casually lobbed on the Sunday morning FOX news circuit.
“I have always said, ‘If I can’t go back home and explain it, I can’t vote for it.’ Despite my best efforts, I cannot explain the sweeping Build Back Better Act in West Virginia and I cannot vote to move forward on this mammoth piece of legislation,” Manchin told FOX News host Bret Baier.
“My Democratic colleagues in Washington are determined to dramatically reshape our society in a way that leaves our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face,” Manchin explained in a follow-up press release. “I cannot take that risk with a staggering debt of more than $29 trillion and inflation taxes that are real and harmful to every hard-working American at the gasoline pumps, grocery stores and utility bills with no end in sight.”
“The American people deserve transparency on the true cost of the Build Back Better Act,” Manchin said in his statement. “The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office determined the cost is upwards of $4.5 trillion which…