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Against the center piece of his climate change legislation. the clean electricity performance program. maybe it has to do with the donations from energy companies to the to mention his son running a coal brokerage mansion founded and took a half million a year from but because that's not enough, he's also gone full ronald reagan demanding a work requirement in the child tax program. all that is left is for mansion to guttersnipe about welfare queens and doing that despite analysis that the child tax credit could cut poverty in half and happens to represent america's second poorest state and ky...

Big restriction on it. child tax credit is expanded one year of the american recovery plan. some family get up to $3,600 per child for the entire year. it goes directly into bank accounts. what you are hearing what manchin told colleagues in the white house is he wants to put an income limit is 60,000. that could change. he wants a work requirement. people who are totally out of the work force or unemployed would not get it. so drastically shrink the size of this entire program but it makes it more likely that joe manchin will vote for reconciliation package. that's going to be a key sort of c...

Overwhelming majority of the american people want, what the president wants. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders is attempting to increase pressure on senator joe manchin, publishing an op-ed in manchin's west virginia hometown paper highlighting his opposition. >> he said you're holding up the -- >> 52 senators who don't agree, okay, and two that want to work something out if possible. >> reporter: manchin has drawn several lines in the sand from the price tag to the climate provisions to even pushing a work requirement in income cap on the child tax credit. >> we're talking about targeting a...

Democrats want to extend the CTC, but that's sparking a debate among some economists about its impact on work.

An economist estimates that the monthly payments could lead to 1.5 million parents dropping out of the workforce.