Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has doubled down on his concern that President Joe Biden’s $1.85 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) Act will worsen already skyrocketing inflation, signaling that the senator is still on the fence about the House-passed spending plan. Currently, inflation of the U.S. dollar is at its highest level in nearly four decades. According to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation jumped by 0.8 percent in Nov. alone, a slight decrease over October’s 0.9 percent jump. Still, the report showed that the 12 month period between Nov. 30, 2020, and Nov. 30, 2021, saw a jump of 6.8 percent in the price of all items, the most severe inflation jump since 1982. Gasoline has been hit the hardest by inflation, with the Labor Department detailing a 12-month increase of 58.1 percent in consumer gas prices. Amid this still rising inflation, Manchin has been extremely cautious toward his …
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