Joe Manchin, Elected West Virginia, said Sunday that he would not support the text after months of negotiations with the White House.
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The Republicans received, Sunday, December 19, an anticipated Christmas present. The deliveryman is a Democratian senator, Joe Manchin, who opens a deep crisis inside his own party and wears a severe blow to the biden presidency.
As the president passed his weekend in Wilmington (Delaware), Joe Manchin was the morning guest of Fox News. A symbolic conservative tribune, to announce that it would definitively oppose the Build Back Better plan (BBB, “rebuilding in better”), the major legislative project of social spending and investment in the green economy, adopted in the House representatives on November 19th. Due to the sharing of the Senate at 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, thanks to the voice of the Vice President Kamala Harris, no vote should miss the majority side to pass a text.
“I tried everything that was humanly as possible, I can not do it,” explained the elected West Virginia. Recalling that it had reserves “for five and a half months” on the text, Joe Manchin has multiplied the explanations to justify this action, to the point of weakening his own argument.
He invoked inflation, the new variant of the coronavirus, on which it should be concentrated, or the global geopolitical instability. Then he repeated the exercise in writing, in a communiqué published in the stride. “My Democratic colleagues in Washington are committed to remodeling our society in a radical way that would leave our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face, read it. I can not take this risk with an escalating debt. More of 29 000 billion [of dollars] and inflation figures that are real and affect each American working hard, at the pump, in food stores and service invoices [gas and electricity], without End in sight. “
He invoked inflation, the new variant of the coronavirus, on which it should be concentrated, or the global geopolitical instability. Then he repeated the exercise in writing, in a communiqué published in the stride. “My Democratic colleagues in Washington are committed to remodeling our society in a radical way that would leave our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face, read it. I can not take this risk with an escalating debt. More of 29 000 billion [of dollars] and inflation figures that are real and affect each American working hard, at the pump, in food stores and service invoices [gas and electricity], without End in sight. “
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