Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) opposition to President Biden’s social spending package is a “great shot in the arm for the country.”
Vice President Harris on Monday said the stakes are too high for the Build Back Better agenda to just be about Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who announced his opposition to the measure on Sunday.
Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) stunned fellow Democrats on Sunday by announcing he would not vote for President Biden’s ambitious climate and social spending bill, which his allies saw as the crowning legislative achievement of his first term.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday, arguing that his reasoning for opposing President Biden's Build Back Better Act falls flat.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said Democrats will not give up on the Build Back Better Act in the new year, one day after Sen.