If they think in reconciliation I’m going to throw caution to the wind and go to $5 trillion or $6 trillion when we can only afford $1 trillion or $1.5 trillion or maybe $2 trillion and what we can pay for, then I can’t be there.
Senator Manchin expresses his concerns about the proposed budget reconciliation amounts.
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We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.
We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.
The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.
When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.
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