Politics
Manchin: WH Staff Are ‘Real Reason’ For His Decision Against Spending Bill
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin (WV) said he decided against President Biden’s Build Back Better Act because White House staff drove him to his “wit’s end.”
“It is not the president. This is staff,” Manchin said in a local radio interview. “And they drove some things, and they put some things out, that was absolutely inexcusable. They know what it is.”
“I’m always willing to work and listen to try. I just got to the wit’s end and they know the real reasons what happened,” he continued.
Over the weekend, Manchin had publicly announced during a Fox News interview that he would be voting “no” on the “mammoth piece of legislation” and that he had “reservations” on the bill since he had first heard about it “five and a half months ago.”
In response to Manchin’s announcement, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki released a lengthy statement claiming that Manchin’s comments were “at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances. Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington, to support the Build Back Better framework that the President then subsequently announced. Senator Manchin pledged repeatedly to negotiate on finalizing that framework ‘in good faith.’”
Psaki additionally claimed that “If [Manchin’s] comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator’s colleagues.”
In response to Psaki’s statement, Manchin explained that Democrats thought they could bully him into supporting the bill because he is just one person.
“They figured surely to God we can move one person. We surely can badger and beat one person up. Surely we can get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough that they’ll just say, ‘OK I’ll vote for anything,’” he said. “Well, guess what? I’m from West Virginia. I’m not from where they’re from and they can just beat the living crap out of people and think they’ll be submissive, period.”
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Republican Representative Andy Biggs from border state Arizona, which is among the states suffering the greatest consequences from the Biden administration policies, lamented that Trump’s suggestion will be “necessary.”
Speaking on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show, Biggs stated “[I]t’s actually gonna have to be necessary.” Biggs then added his thoughts on how many more people will continue to cross the border under Biden: “Because by the time Trump gets back in office, you will have had over 10 million, in my opinion, over 10 million illegal aliens cross our border and come into the country, under the Biden regime.”
“And so when you start deporting people, and removing them from this country, what that does is that disincentivizes the tens of thousands of people who are coming,” Biggs went on. “And by the way, everyday down in Darién Gap, which is in Panama… over 5,000 people a day. [I] talk[ed] to one of my sources from the gap today. And I will just tell you, those people that you’ve seen come come in to Eagle Pass, over 7,000 in a three day period, most of those two weeks ago, were down crossing into the Darién Gap.”
“And those people… make their way up and they end up in the Eagle Pass [Texas], Del Rio area,” he continued. “So if you want to disincentivize them, you remove them from the country, which is why they remain in Mexico policy was so doggone effective at slowing down illegal border crossings.”
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rbblum
December 21, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Manchin is a true ‘statesman’ . . . One that RINOS should take notice of.
Al Johnson
December 21, 2021 at 6:14 pm
At least one DC insider thinks that Manchin will put forth a revised $1.8 trillion ‘unfrastructure” bill after talking to Brandon last night. The Dems have a $2.2 trillion tax increase bill pending ….their idea of how to raise funds to pay for something they claim will cost zero.
Al Johnson
December 21, 2021 at 6:16 pm
Correction: That $2.2 trillion tax increase bill pending might be 2.9 trillion.
LLOYD EARL GRIZZELL
December 21, 2021 at 11:13 pm
Dear Senator Manchin –
You quite possibly will go down in history as the one public servant who stood strong in the face of tremendous adversity and scorn to save our country from total devastation of irrevocable debt and inflation like the United States of America has ever, ever experienced! You are a true hero, sir. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! And, we are all still praying for your strength and resolve to stay the Course … Keep the faith in your principles and the rule of law that sets this blessed country apart from any civilization to grace planet earth. God Bless You and keep you and the ones who you serve and love.
Larry
December 22, 2021 at 6:42 am
Bravo.
Linda Orf Strebbing
December 22, 2021 at 11:01 am
May the Good Lord and Creator bless Senator Manchin
JM
December 22, 2021 at 6:02 pm
Good for him! He knows that what they want is not good for ALL AMERICANS!
Mike J
December 23, 2021 at 2:03 pm
“Manchin: WH Staff Are ‘Real Reason’ For His Decision Against Spending Bill’
That’s not good news. I though he had other legitimate reasons for saying no to this bill, then to see that his big reason for saying no was because of the white house staff is not very encouraging.