But Manchin always gives with one hand and takes with the other. What does he want in return?
Manchin Wants to Boost Social Security Taxes https://t.co/WrCHHseOvx via @politicalwire
— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) February 10, 2022
Category: Austerity Porn
Baby, I promise this time will be different
SCOOP from @JonLemire
Biden and Manchin spoke. Sense is talks can/will continue around BBBhttps://t.co/Ofd3nyq4Ni
— Sam Stein (@samstein) December 20, 2021
Swell
Goldman Sachs cuts US economic forecast after Joe Manchin rejects Build Back Better https://t.co/JGFhqb1zZu
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 20, 2021
Thanks, Joe and Kyrsten!
President Joe Biden does not yet have the votes in the Senate to push the roughly $2 trillion bill to passage https://t.co/DTg0N4AlEF
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) December 17, 2021
F*ck this guy
In a big warning sign, Manchin said BBB shouldn’t rely on temporary spending that could become permanent. “I don’t think that’s a fair evaluation of saying we are going to spend X amount of dollars but then we are going to have to depend on coming back and finding more money" pic.twitter.com/kxfZfL5N6H
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 13, 2021
F*ck you, Lindsey
Jen Psaki shreds Lindsey Graham and congressional Republicans for passing the Trump tax cuts and not paying for them and said that BBB cuts the deficit by $ 2 trillion so Democrats are covering Graham and GOP's "irresponsible" spending. pic.twitter.com/DnIqFsa6gg
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 10, 2021
Deficit theater
We’ve seen this show, they bring nothing new to the performance:
This is…. silly. It’s $3.5t over ten years. no in one year.
Alternatively…. the Pentagon budget was $703.7b in 2021. Lets say they flatlined that for ten years. That’s 7 trillion plus. Or, roughly, two times bigger than this bill. https://t.co/umDMt7APR5
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 28, 2021
Finally, an agreement
Sen. Schumer: "Anyone who thinks this bill is enough does not know what's going on in America." pic.twitter.com/orqrHTwjLn
— The Hill (@thehill) December 21, 2020
Congress clinches sweeping deal on coronavirus relief, government funding https://t.co/CTVlCgECJj
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) December 20, 2020
Pelosi on COVID bill: We consider this a first step and that again, more needs to be done. We’re so excited that that will be happening under the Biden-Harris administration about 700 hours from now
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) December 21, 2020
NEWS: White House HAS secured tax break for corporate meal expenses — aka the "three martini" deduction — in draft of emergency economic relief package, per officials
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 21, 2020
Dems agreed to it in exchange for larger earned income, child tax credits, aide sayshttps://t.co/5qQpiWiame
We have lost so much
Due to the incompetence and willful destruction of the Republicans:
One in six US restaurants has permanently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic https://t.co/UWuj77UI2e pic.twitter.com/tqsMTTz7Sq
— The Hill (@thehill) December 7, 2020
The game plan
Is, of course, austerity. And as far as ‘unserious’ goes, #MoscowMitch just tried to get a goldbug appointed to the Federal Reserve board.
Mitch McConnell rips into the $3.4 trillion Democratic stimulus plan as 'unserious' https://t.co/7ri70lAGhL
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) November 17, 2020