Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Sunday that he was "not going to change my mind" on support for the filibuster but expressed openness to making it "a little bit more painful" to use.
Speaking on CNN s State of the Union, Manchin told host Jake Tapper There’s not one senator out of 100 that does not want to raise the minimum wage, Manchin said. Not one.
He went on to explain that he supports raising the minimum wage to a level that would allow a full-time worker to live above the federal poverty line, which he said was how he landed on his suggestion for the new minimum wage level of $11 per hour. Once it gets above $11, it should be indexed so it never becomes a political football again, he added while addressing criticism from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
This limited, at best, support for progressive policies should not be a shock. After all, the Democratic electorate decisively rejected progressivism in the 2020 presidential primaries. Joe Biden
What holds together Democratic voters is not progressive ideology; it’s hatred for Trump. According to the Republican-oriented polling firm Echelon Insights, Democratic voters rate danger from “Trump supporters” as a concern (82 percent) second only to the coronavirus (87 percent).
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Yet, progressives like Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
West Virginia troubles
If Manchin were to switch parties, like Jeffords did in 2001, there is nothing the jilted former majority could do about it just like in 2001. When it comes to electing a Democrat to the U.S. Senate, in West Virginia there’s Manchin and nobody else. West Virginia is now a decisively Republican state, having elected Sen. Shelley Capito Moore by a large majority and plumping for Trump by nearly 40 poi
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We re going to introduce a bill tomorrow night. Now, the leadership can discard it. I can t govern that. I can only do that which is before me. . What Leader McConnell decides to do, I don t have control over. I only can do what I can do, Cassidy told CNN s State of the Union.
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Splitting off the two most controversial items could make it easier to at least pass a smaller coronavirus agreement as part of a government funding deal as cases spike across the country, hospitals have warned about being over capacity, and some states and cities are reimposing lockdown measures with public health experts warning of a brutal winter.