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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Manchin wanted to have work requirements for people to have paid leave from work.
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Yet House Democrats foray immediately encountered trouble. Manchin and Sinema each had demanded massive cuts to the overarching $3.5 trillion price tag. Even though paid-leave programs had been popular among lawmakers in the party and some, including Sinema, had unveiled related legislation in the past the centrist duo said the total package cost too much.
Manchin, meanwhile, privately expressed to Democratic lawmakers, White House officials and paid-leave advocates a series of evolving concerns specifically with the proposed benefit program, according to five people familiar with his thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private negotiations.
At times, the senator from West Virginia said a paid-leave program could invite fraud, likening it to those who tried to collect unemployment even when they were not eligible. In some conversations with lawmakers and advocates, he asked about work requirements, even though employment is a condition for one to take leave in the first place, some of the sources said.
In other instances, Manchin raised the potential impact on small businesses, which needed workers to remain on the job. And in public and private, Manchin highlighted issues with the solvency of a new social benefit program, pointing to his long-documented concerns that existing federal entitlements, including Medicare, are running out of funds.
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Irish_Dem
(45,639 posts)Irish_Dem
(45,639 posts)The answer is both are true.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)He's doing what he's told
agingdem
(7,759 posts)work requirement for paid leave..huh??..that's like saying admission is free/pay at the door....here's hoping Manchin's wife who works for Joe has the good sense to divorce the sonofabitch and take him for all he's worth!
Irish_Dem
(45,639 posts)Doesn't matter to him.
Pachamama
(16,874 posts)Manchin and Sinema will go down in history as having played a negative direct role in the outcome of events .regardless of the final vote. They singlehandedly have helped gut and destroy what could have been the greatest achievement yet by the Democratic Party and helped this Nation and our democracy.
Irish_Dem
(45,639 posts)Maybe that is one of their goals.
malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)Wouldn't a federal paid family leave program help small businesses? They wouldn't have to complete with big business with leave benefits.
kcr
(15,300 posts)Because the truth is too many small business owners feel entitled to own their businesses on the backs of the people they exploit.
dsc
(52,130 posts)If you have only one accountant or only one HR person that kind of thing. It seems to be a temp should work out in most cases though.
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Reminds me of Fox making up crap.
I can understand employers and our filthy rich oligarchy complaining about cost but the stuff Manchin is now throwing out is utter nonsense.
He's run out of slightly valid complaints and is now just throwing out anything his pee brain stumbles over. Are we sure he isn't a Trump worshipper?
agingdem
(7,759 posts)whose "got" his and doesn't want the Great Unwashed" to "get" theirs...
Rhiagel
(1,675 posts)I want to see 1/2 million dollars in sweat pour from Machin's brow before he earns those coal dividends.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Live and learn....
Nevilledog
(50,685 posts)Bayard
(21,805 posts)You know--the ones that don't live on yachts.
Wingus Dingus
(8,049 posts)CousinIT
(9,151 posts)OR as someone else here mentioned, he may just be yanking everyone's chain Trump style.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Response to Nevilledog (Original post)
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Liberal In Texas
(13,453 posts)What a toady.