Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a moderate Democrat, on Friday said he opposed providing $2,000 stimulus checks, putting him at odds with President-elect Joe Biden. “Absolutely not. No,” Manchin told The Washington Post in an interview published Friday. “Getting people vaccinated, that’s job number one.” “How is the money that we invest now going to help us best to get jobs back and get people employed? And I can’t tell you that sending another check out is going to do that to a person that’s already got a check,” he said. Later Friday Manchin said in a tweet that if checks do go out, they should only go to the neediest. “If the next round of stimulus checks goes out, they should be targeted to those who need it,” he wrote. Earlier this week, Biden said if Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) were elected it would allow the Senate to approve the $2,000 stimulus checks that …
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