Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told “Axios on HBO” in an interview published Monday that he will block President Joe Biden’s next major legislative initiative unless more effort is made to include Republican voices. Manchin told the outlet that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that cleared the Senate this weekend could have won some Republican backing if just a few concessions had been made. Instead, the package was adopted along a strict party-line vote that Republicans denounced as a partisan “wish list” padded with spending unrelated to the pandemic. In a March 5 press conference, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), and several other Senate Republicans criticized what they said was a partisan process around passing the bill, calling Biden’s previous calls for unity “hollow,” and denouncing the package as “bloated, wasteful, and partisan.” “They’ve chosen a partisan path. And the reason we’re not doing it …