Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV, speaks to the press near the Senate subway following a vote in the Senate impeachment trial that acquitted President Donald Trump of all charges on February 5, 2020, in Washington, D.C. | Getty Images/Sarah Silbiger
A group of pro-life Democrats has praised Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for working to preserve a longstanding ban on the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions and is calling on another pro-life Democrat to seek the White House in 2024.
Manchin co-wrote a letter calling on the influential Senate Appropriations Committee to include the Hyde Amendment in the Department of Health and Human Services’ funding bill for fiscal year 2022, slated to begin Oct. 1. The letter, dated Wednesday, was co-authored by Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and addressed to Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., as well as the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
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Biden, Top Democrats Push For $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
07/14/21 AT 7:19 PM
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., have agreed on a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that Democrats are expected to pass the Senate through reconciliation. President Joe Biden has also endorsed the infrastructure bill after the economy struggled during the height of the pandemic.
“The budget committee has reached an agreement. The budget resolution with instructions will be worth $3.5 trillion,” Schumer told reporters.
“Every major program that President Biden has asked us for will be funded in a robust way,” he added.
The bill is set to pay for many priorities Sanders and other top Democrats pushed for such as expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing, as well as childcare, healthcare, and combating climate change.
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Senate Budget Committee ranking member Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ripped the $3.5 trillion “tax and spend” package, disguised as “infrastructure,” proposed by Democrats on Tuesday night.
“The $3.5 trillion tax and spend package being proposed by Senator Schumer and other Democrats is using infrastructure as an excuse to raise taxes and expand government. The proposal is not about infrastructure. It’s about expanding the role of government in our lives from cradle to grave. This is about a massive tax increase that will stifle economic recovery. It is about liberal wishlist spending that will stoke the fires of inflation,” Graham said in a release. “Horrible, bad idea. Count me in for real infrastructure. Count me out for a tax and spend plan from Hell.”
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on July 15 2021 9:19 AM Former White House hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders (left) has endorsed his onetime rival Joe Biden for the Democratic Party s presidential nomination
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., have agreed on a $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that Democrats are expected to pass the Senate through reconciliation. President Joe Biden has also endorsed the infrastructure bill after the economy struggled during the height of the pandemic.
“The budget committee has reached an agreement. The budget resolution with instructions will be worth $3.5 trillion,” Schumer told reporters.
“Every major program that President Biden has asked us for will be funded in a robust way,” he added.
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