Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told “Axios on HBO” in an interview published March 8 that he’ll block President Joe Biden’s next major legislative initiative unless more effort is made to include Republican voices. Manchin told the outlet that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that cleared the Senate this weekend could have won some Republican backing if just a few concessions had been made. Instead, the package was adopted along a strict party-line vote that Republicans denounced as a partisan “wish list” padded with spending unrelated to the pandemic. In a March 5 press conference, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), and several other Senate Republicans criticized what they said was a partisan process around passing the bill, calling Biden’s previous calls for unity “hollow,” and denouncing the package as “bloated, wasteful, and partisan.” “They’ve chosen a partisan path. And the reason we’re not doing it …
Read More
RSS Feed | The Epoch Times
