Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Just issued a statement This morning he warned Joe Biden and Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that he was “seriously concerned” about the huge spending in the $3.5 trillion budget spending plan that the Democrats were trying to promote, especially considering rising inflation and debt. The bill is basically a wish list of every Democratic agenda item to help them maintain power.
Although Manchin voted in favor of the procedural vote to advance the bill because he wanted to discuss fiscal policy, he said that due to the huge cost, he did not approve of the current bill: “Although I will support starting this process [of budget reconciliation], I don’t support the $3.5 trillion bill. “
My statement raised concerns about the consequences of passing the 3.5 trillion dollar budget: pic.twitter.com/gGsEXcVTxd
-Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) August 11, 2021
“In the past year, Congress has injected more than $5 trillion in stimulus measures into the U.S. economy—more than at any time since World War II—to deal with this epidemic. The challenges we face now are different: There are still millions of job vacancies across the country, and rising inflation is now an inevitable wage and income tax for every American,” he said. “These do not indicate that the economy needs trillions of dollars in additional expenditures.”
Manchin added: “Without considering the negative impact on our children and grandchildren, adding trillions of dollars to the nearly 29 trillion dollars of national debt is one of the decisions that has become too easy in Washington.” “Given the current state of economic recovery, it is irresponsible to continue spending at a level that is more suitable for dealing with the Great Depression or Great Recession, rather than an economy on the verge of overheating.”
Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) made a similar comment, so it does not appear to have a vote currently constructed. There may be more Democrats who are not so outspoken, and they also have questions about the cost.Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) also Say His vote to advance the budget will never lock in his support for the final product.
At the same time, Pelosi, Representative Alexander Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and others said that they will not vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill until the monster is passed.
So now, the Democrats are delaying the Democrats because who will break and succumb first.
