News Analysis In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has come out squarely against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) expansive budget resolution. Manchin’s opposition puts the bill—which President Biden considers an integral part of his “build back better” agenda—in grave danger of failure in the Senate. The budget resolution advanced to the House just before the Senate left for their August recess, and it is one of the most ambitious and widest-reaching pieces of legislation since the New Deal. Some of its provisions include billions to fund a path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens, government-paid childcare, pre-K, and community college education, funding for federal housing, and what Sanders called an “extremely aggressive” policy to move the United States away from fossil fuels, among many others. To finance the $3.5 trillion plan, Democrats would raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy to some of …
Manchin Rejects Sanders’ $3.5 Trillion Budget in Op-Ed, Imperiling Its Future
September 3, 2021
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