so hard and spending so much time to try to figure out what it is that joe manchin needed to hear to support both the infrastructure plan and that multi-trillion dollar progressive wish list and manchin thought about it before deciding he is a no explaining himself in a statement that said what i made clear to the president and democratic leaders is that spending trillions more on new and expanded government programs when we can t even pay for the essential social programs like social security and medicare is the definition of fiscal insanity. manchin s vote doesn t matter today, though. even though there is bipartisan support for infrastructure, progressives are threatening to kill that bill in the house unless they get something else, 3 1/2 trillion dollars worth of a long progressive wish list. it is an all or nothing strategy that has some moderate democrats now looking for more leadership from the president. i think this is his agenda. he said that very clearly that