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In the wake of West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin’s announcement on Fox News Sunday that he would oppose the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better bill, the evening newscasts on Monday night spent a significant amount of time covering the big setback for the Biden agenda and pili
District are suffering, we just buried a 17-year-old who was shot dead in the head a couple of weeks ago. this bill has 2.5 billion for violence prevention. it has universal child care, universal prek. it finally deals with the climate issue the same way black and brown people and women were kept out of the new deal. joe mansion is trying to keep people out of this bill today and it's unacceptable and we need to do everything in our power make sure it passes. >> so what do you say when he reacts and says it's not about people of kcolor or trying to oppress. it's about inflation. you're not buy...
His position and breach in the commitments to the president and colleagues in the house and senate, however, she was far more muted in today's press briefing saying she can't speak for senator mansion and the white house remains focused on what is next. senator mansion said he's open to new programs that are fully funded over ten years. and "the washington post" reports that before negotiations broke down, senator mansion told the white house that he would accept a $1.8 trillion package that included universal prek for ten years and an expansion of obamacare and hundreds of billions of dollars...
The gas here. i'm confident the president will secure the votes necessary to pass this but again, we're going to keep the pressure up because these investments are historic and sorely needed and long over due. investments like home and community based services to address a wait list that is thousands long for services for the disabled and the elderly, expansion of medicare to include hearing, lowering of prescription drug costs. investments in universal prek, in child care and also ensuring that we're supporting that work force. what we've done with child care here is for most families, they w...
Shared by republicans in the senate, which means you need every democrat in the senate and joe mansion if he were here with us wouldn't agree with what you just said about paid family leave and the way the government may invest in people that -- how do you explain this to somebody like joe mansion because he's the guy you need. you need kyrsten sinema and joe mansion on this. >> joe mansion needs to hear from and speak with his constituents. his constituents who are in dire need of lower cost and prescription drugs, constituents like mine, mother who i spoke with who has three children living ...