his position and breach in the commitments to the president and colleagues in the house and senate, however, she was far more muted in today s press briefing saying she can t speak for senator mansion and the white house remains focused on what is next. senator mansion said he s open to new programs that are fully funded over ten years. and the washington post reports that before negotiations broke down, senator mansion told the white house that he would accept a $1.8 trillion package that included universal prek for ten years and an expansion of obamacare and hundreds of billions of dollars to combat climate change but that plan didn t include a child tax credit, an omission difficult for the white house to accept in the high stakes negotiations. get this, nbc news has now confirmed reporting that senator mansion has actually raised concerns to fellow democratic senators that parents would use their child tax credit payments to buy drugs. in a statement to nbc, senator
the bottom line is there is basically, and it is staff driven, i understand staff. it is not president but the staff. they drove some things and put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable and they know what it is and that s it. today the hill reporting that manchin was upset with what he perceived as, quote, incivility from the whitehouse despite biden and white house officials holding numerous private meetings with him. there s also new reporting manchin had private concerns he might prefer to keep private. manchin reportedly thought parents would waste the monthly child tax credit payments on drugs. he reportedly worried west virginians were abusing paid leave using it to go hunting during deer season. manchin also takes home $500,000 a year from coal investments which could have been hit by the legislation. now west virginia is ruby red, voted for trump by 40 points. but 68% of west virginians support biden s build back better plan. here is what some of them said
president pretty much kill the build back better act yesterday. going back to me being pissed months ago when it was continuously being gutted, and when i hear that he doesn t trust our parents to do right by their own children with the child tax credit payments, it takes me back to the ronald reagan days and they called them welfare queens to describe what s happening. it seems to be happening with real people and what s actually happening in their lives and how people are yearning to get back to work but they don t have child care. he seemed to understand that the child tax credit lifted 56% of children out of poverty and helped the economy to move forward. it s important to continue at least for a year, but i would love to see it put in place permanently. as we know, manchin is also against corporations paying their fair share and taxing the
most of us are either savers or borrowers, and fed moves impact us. reporter: also tonight, the last of those child tax credit payments are going out, unless congress extends them by passing the president s social spending plan. but cbs news has learned that bill is unlikely to be passed by christmas as senior democrats had hoped. norah. o donnell: ed o keefe, thank you. well, now, we have a story that offers hope to patients battling severe cases of covid. it s also a story of gratitude to healthcare workers who go above and beyond their duty to save lives. here s cbs meg oliver. i m so excited to see you. ( laughs ). reporter: we first met 35-year-old hillary lee from montana in early october. hillary. reporter: on a ventilator and ecmo machine, clinging to life. her mom, pam lee, praying for a miracle. i love you, too. reporter: do you remember when she tried to wave to you? oh, my gosh. yeah, that was that was