Joe Manchin actually said...

"defaulting on the Nation's debt would cause tremendous harm to American families, businesses, and to the global economy"

"let us stop lurching from one manufactured crisis to another manufactured crisis and stop threatening to default on the Nation's obligations"

"the harm from default would take not just a short term to recover from, but I think it could take a decade to recover from."

"It is just irresponsible to not deal with the underlying problem that gives rise to the need for all of this debt."