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This is a mammoth piece of legislation and I have my reservations from the beginning. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there.
This is something that is just a recognition that it`s expensive to raise a child and that it every other one of our peer industrialized nations do much more in terms of helping families do well and thrive.
The bottom line is there was basically, and it`s staff. It`s staff driven. I understand staff, it`s not the president, it`s the staff.
They figure surely to God we can move one person, surely we can badger and beat one person up, surely we can get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough, they`ll just say, okay, I`ll vote for anything, just quit.
Joe Manchin has made comments about paid leaves suggesting that people might go hunting with their time that they`re given him the other every other country in the world, almost every other country in the world recognizes paid family leave…
Joe Manchin went on Fox News and basically said he`s not voting for the Build Back Better deal.
I just got to the wit`s end, and they know the real reason what happened. They won`t tell you and I`m not going to discuss. It`s staff driven. I understand staff is not the president, it`s the staff. And they drove some things and they put…
Criminal conduct by Trump, that is what the MAGA riot committee is investigating.
If members with directly relevant information decline to cooperate and instead endeavor to cover up, the select committee will consider seeking such information using other tools.
Voting -- just voting is the bedrock of democracy.
If he can`t go home and explain to the people of West Virginia that he cannot vote for it
I think it should be eliminated from the bill altogether or extended for 10 years, in which case I think it’s too expensive.
So when Senator Manchin calls for bipartisanship, I`ll echo what Senator Warnock said today as well, by partisanship at whose expense because we know these voter suppression bills are targeted to black and brown communities.
All my discussions again with bipartisan Republicans, Democrats and rules change should be done to where we all have input in this real shame because we`re going to live with him.
Senator Manchin and President Biden had a productive conversation this afternoon. They will continue to talk over the coming days.
Whatever we`re considering doing or whatever Congress is considering doing, they should do it within the limits of what we can afford. I just don`t think that that`s a fair evaluation of saying that we`re going to spend X amount of dollars…