Force Manchin News Today

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Scale social spending package and the idea of some progressives, ocasio-cortez, was to hold off on the infrastructure package until they had this larger package set. that would have been with hindsight a better strategy to force manchin and the president and all those folks to come to the table with what the package to look like at the end of the day and now given that leverage and manchin holds the cards here and something that progressives struggle with. op-eds wont change that. im not sure wh...

Of leverage this january six one year anniversary. the emotion around what happened at the capitol and that the very plain threat of american democracy that continues to this day. that they can leverage all of that to force manchin and sinema to come around on this filibuster and get behind the idea of pushing through this voting rights legislation which of course has been a cornerstone of the biden agenda for a year now. but it has fallen behind other issues like infrastructure and stimulus spe...

Acknowledge that they have two hold-outs within his own caucus? and how does he deal with that? we will continue to pressure joe manchin. at the end of the day, what we all have to keep in mind, activists, elected officials, and media, is joe manchin says the thing he says because he thinks it will discourage people from calling him out. part of their job is to vote. and part of what im glad senator schumer is doing is hes going to put this up for a vote. hes going to force manchin and sinema to...

Of the hill, well, well force manchin and cinema, too, and they drew a very firm line. when you are the deciding vote, you get to draw firm lines and we can really be upset about that. but thats the reality. my guess is right now joe biden is in his press conference said im going to get something done with joe manchin and my guess is thats based on conversations those two principles have had. so the question is, is this going to be build back better 2.0, which is less expensive, a few less progr...

Contempt. >> well, you heard bernie sanders earlier in the program saying that senator schumer, the democratic majority leader of the senate, should bring the bill to the floor of the senate for a vote anyway and force manchin to vote no. do you agree? >> i do, absolutely. >> do you think president biden in telling progressives -- and i realize you were one of the six who were skeptical, not of biden but manchin, do you think president biden broke his promise? he said, i give you my word as a bi...

The presidents agenda, to obstruct the peoples agenda. jake, all i want for christmas is a senator that has compassion for the american people and not contempt. >> well, you heard bernie sanders earlier on the program saying that senator schumer, the democratic majority leader of the senate, should bring the bill to the floor of the senate for a vote anyway, and force manchin to vote no. do you agree? >> i do, absolutely. >> do you think president biden in telling progressives -- and i realize y...

There are some senates, senators warren, durban and others and want to force manchins hand. doesnt seem like schumer going to take that path. hell let manchin and the president negotiate but this is likely not going to even happen in january. my sources up here on capitol hill the talk is they wont bring it up march or april so theres still a long runway here before most likely until theyre able to get this done and negotiate the problems some senators still have with this legislation. >> leigh ...

Tonight, but the good news is they finally have manchin and sinema at the table talking details about the big back better package. are we going to end up with something closer to 3.5 or 1.5? are we going to have things like paid family leave in the bill, free community college in the bill, something on the child tax credit? all of these things joe biden has campaigned on is now happening in earnest. that is what progressives have wanted to force manchins and sinemas hand to vote on these things....