bill was like here s some meat and potatoes stuff, okay? wherever you are, you re going to give you money to raise your kids, help you hire someone to take care of your senior citizens who need elder care. here s some day care. here s some good investment in clean jobs. and it s let s do some meat and potato stuff that s popular and it s polling at 86%. i ll tell you the question and picking up on what heather said, where do you go from here? having worked in the west wing, having worked in the building, it s as far from an aaron sorkin episode you can imagine. so the question now i think in the weeks ahead as furious as a lot of us are is do we focus on how do we hurt joe mancin or
to declare his position on build back better. it s unclear if that means game over, one immediate result of his opposition will be on the expanded child tax credit. more than 35 million families, including i think 92% of households with kids in west virginia started getting that payment in july. it cut the child poverty rate in the country by a quarter in just the first month. there s more and more evidence the expansion of the child tax credit is the things that manchin wants to get rid of. joe he said he thought parents would waste the payments on drugs instead of providing for their children and that americans would fraudulently use