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bill. we don t even know if joe manchin will participate. these caucus calls are not the kind of thing where attendance is mandatory, and even though joe manchin is the cause of this call, his office isn t saying one way or another whether he ll be on it. after some kind of cooling-off period over the holiday break, you ll see some elements of this bill resuscitated in some way, and it s going to have to have joe manchin s blessing. it could be a very bitter pill to swallow for the rest of the party, but there is just not a way to make the math work without joe manchin s buy-in. and joe manchin understands the power leverage that he has, and he s been using it to his advantage. now they re hearing leaks about what joe manchin was saying behind closed doors about their own constituents, about how they might use the child tax credit for drugs, and how men who get paid time off will go hunting,

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