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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-manchin-build-back-better-child-tax-credit-drugs_n_61bf8f6be4b061afe394006d
Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs
The West Virginia senator just killed Democrats' agenda. In private negotiations, he questioned whether the poorest Americans would spend financial aid wisely.
By Tara Golshan and Arthur Delaney at the Huffington Post
12/20/2021 05:45am EST | Updated 5 hours ago
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WASHINGTON After months of haggling with President Joe Biden and other Democrats, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dashed his partys hopes on Sunday by announcing he wouldnt vote for the Build Back Better legislation.
Publicly, his biggest gripes are about the cost of the bill. But privately, Manchin has told his colleagues that he essentially doesnt trust low-income people to spend government money wisely.
In recent months, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senators comments.
Continuing the child tax credit for another year is a core part of the Build Back Better legislation that Democrats had hoped to pass by the end of the year. The policy has already cut child poverty by nearly 30%.
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applegrove
Dec 2021
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Manchin doesn't trust the poors to spend the money wisely
Why, not a one in the bunch seems to have a yacht or a Maserati. What are they spending their money on, anyway? Drugs, I bet. Yeah, probably drugs.
2naSalit
(86,951 posts)2. Senator Affluenza...
King of the exceptionals.
Paladin
(28,286 posts)3. Tiedrich nails it in one sentence, as usual. (nt)
SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)4. Spoken like a true....
racist Reagan republican. This ranks right up there with the "welfare queen" lies from the Reagan days.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)5. The jagoff was prattling on about "means testing" in another clip I saw
this afternoon on one of the news channels.
applegrove
(118,915 posts)6. So he is not afraid of low information voters being used by rich GOP
elites to make bad choices about their health and the health of their neighbours regarding Covid or likewise the health of Democracy. He let's that go. But the poors might make bad choices with an extra $150.00 a month and it must be stopped immediately? Right. If parents are spending money they save with pre-k and and get in child tax credit on drugs every day they should not have custody of their kids.