Manchin may delay Biden social spending plan over inflation
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Source: Axios
Red-hot inflation data validates the instinct of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) to punt President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda until next year — potentially killing a quick deal on the $1.75 trillion package, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
Why it matters: The data released Wednesday set the president and White House staff scrambling. Slowing down work on the massive tax-and-spending plan is against the fervent desire of the administration and House progressives.
With a limited number of legislative days left in the year, Manchin is content to focus on the issues that need to be addressed, Axios is told. They include funding the government, raising the debt ceiling and passing the National Defense Authorization Act.
Manchin, like a group of House moderates, also wants to see a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the true cost of each of Biden’s proposed programs, as well as the tax proposals to fund them.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/manchin-chill-bbb-6b58cd70-6c07-40f9-af4e-c944a7b3a39d.html
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...won't be a 'next congress'...
...without a significant Social Climate BBB bill, the people's bill, many just won't show up...
...the pukes will be energized, our people will have totally given up and don't forget, given a little time and plenty of money trump and his pukes have known to turn average distraught Americans into voting idiots...
...it's now or never...
Considering that the BBB plan would help the average American with the inflation problem...
to the average person in this country ......my tax rate will go up after 2005....and this &^%$#()@?: is worried about what ......hell the tax cut isn't paid for.....
