Joe Manchin: “Time is of the essence--the longer we wait to solve this problem the more expensive and more difficult it becomes.”

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.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.

We don't even have a budget anymore.

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.