Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin reportedly dished out copies of a proposal that he presented to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about the congressional budget resolution to his Democrat colleagues in the Senate this week “to underscore that he has outlined his red lines on President Joe Biden’s jobs and families plan” and defend his decision to stifle the White House’s spending agenda.
Manchin outlined his conditions for joining the Democrats in passing the White House’s pricey spending plan. The first requirement states that the bill cannot exceed his topline spending ceiling of $1.5 trillion and requests that debate on the reconciliation package begin no later than Oct. 1. Manchin authored the document in July shortly before the Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer appears to have signed the page and added a note that he would “try to dissuade Joe on many of these.” A vast majority of the requirements laid out by Manchin and viewed by Schumer, however, were overlooked in the Democrats’ audacious plan which costs far more than the swing senator’s initial maximum.
Schumer’s office denied that he agreed to the conditions and simply claimed that his signature solidified “that he would work to convince Sen. Manchin to support a final reconciliation bill — as he has doing been for weeks.”
read more here: https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/30/manchin-reveals-surprising-proof-he-told-schumer-what-would-get-him-to-vote-yes-on-reconciliation/
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