end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the president and the senator s colleagues in the house and senate. manchin s support for the plan is necessary for democrats to pass the legislation. and progressives are outraged by what he s done. mr. manchin says he s representing the people of west virginia. okay. why don t you do a poll? cnn, do a poll, and you ask the people of west virginia whether or not they want to lower the cost of prescription drugs. you ask them whether they want to expand medicare to cover dental, hearing, and eye glasses. you ask them whether they want to continue the $300 payment to help working parents in these very difficult times bring up their kids with dignity. ask them if they want to deal with climate change. on all of those issues, i suspect people of west virginia, like every other state in this country, would say, yes, do the right thing for working
this is a no. this is a no on this legislation. i ve tried everything i know to do. joining us exclusively to react, the man managing the legislation, senate budget committee chairman bernie sanders of vermont. so senator manchin says he can t get there, this is a no. what is your reaction? well, he ll have a lot of explaining to do to the people of with west virginia to tell him he doesn t have the guts to take on the drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs, why he is not prepared to expand home health care, west virginia, one of the poorest states in this country, elderly people and disabled people who would like to stay at home, are forced into nursing homes. he s going to hace to tell the people of west virginia why he doesn t want to expand medicare to cover dental, hearing and eye glasses.
i ve tried everything humanly possible. i can t get there. you re done. this is a no. this is a no on this legislation. i ve tried everything i know to do. joining us exclusively to react, the man managing the legislation, senate budget committee chairman bernie sanders of vermont. so senator manchin says this this is a no. what is your reaction? we ll have a lot of explaining to do to the people of with west virginia to tell him he doesn t have the guts to take on the drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs, why he is not prepared to expand home health care, west virginia, one of the poorest states in this country, elderly people and disabled people who would like to stay at home, are forced into nursing homes, he has to tell the people of west virginia why he doesn t want to expand medicare to cover dental, hearing and eye glasses.
i told joe manchin let me talk about joe manchin voted for a huge increase in military spending. manchin voted for an infrastructure bill which added $250 billion to the deficit. the truth of the matter is, if you look at the military budget, $770 billion times that by ten years, it is four times higher than what the build back better plan is. mr. manchin is representing the people of west virginia. why don t do you a poll, cnn do a poll and you ask the people of west virginia whether or not they want to lower the cost of prescription drugs. you ask them whether they want to expand medicare to cover dental, hearing and eye glasses. you ask them whether they want to continue the $300 payment to help working parents in these very difficult times bring up their kids with dignity. ask them if they want to deal with climate change. on all of those issues i suspect people like west virginia like every other state will say do the right thing for working families. skbl is there
going to make inflation worse. i told joe manchin let me talk about joe manchin voted for a huge increase in military spending. manchin voted for an infrastructure bill which added $250 billion to the deficit. if you look at the military budget $770 billion times that by ten years it is four times higher than what the build back better plan is. mr. manchin is representing the people of west virginia. why don t do you a poll, cnn do a poll and you ask the people of west virginia whether or not they want to lower the cost of prescription drugs. you ask them whether they want to expand medicare, to cover dental, hearing and eye glasses. you ask them whether they want to continue the $300 payment to help working parents in these very difficult times bring up their kids with dignity. ask them if they want to deal with climate change. on all issues i suspect people