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On the recordJune 30, 2021
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.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia
Source
msnbc.com

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Senator Manchin expresses his concerns about the proposed budget reconciliation amounts.

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