Two high-profile moderate Democrats are hitting President Biden and progressives in Congress over their massive demands what spending should be included in Democrats’ reconciliation bill, noting that Democrats do not have the kind of majorities former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had when he passed his New Deal.
“Nobody elected him to be F.D.R., they elected him to be normal and stop the chaos,” Rep, Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., told the New York Times Wednesday, regarding the president’s ambitious legislative agenda.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., echoed a similar point on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday morning.
“We don’t have the numbers that FDR had or that Lyndon Baines Johnson had in order to get some major, major legislation done,” Manchin said on CNN. “So we have to come to realization what we have and deal in good faith that we can do at least something.”
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) delivers remarks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S. November 1, 2021.
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SEN. JOE MANCHIN SPEAKS TO FOX NEWS ON IMPACT OF TUESDAY’S ELECTIONS ON BIDEN AGENDA
House Democrats released a new reconciliation bill text on Wednesday and are frantically working to vote on it potentially Thursday, Friday, or over the weekend. The bill text includes money for paid family leave, which Manchin says should not be included in the bill and instead should be passed separately. There’s a strong chance that even if the bill is passed through the House this weekend, that provision will be stripped in the Senate.
Manchin said on Fox News’ “Special Report” Wednesday, “They’re working off the House bill. That’s not going to be the bill I work off of.”
Spanberger’s and Manchin’s comments come in the wake of a devastating loss for Democrats in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Some progressive Democrats have blamed moderates for not acting quickly enough or boldly enough on liberal policies and spending plans to fire up the Democrat base,…
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