Biden Doesn’t Spare Manchin, Sinema In Reconciliation Remarks

October 22, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: U.S. President Joe Biden (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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October 22, 2021

During a Thursday night CNN town hall, President Joe Biden was fairly candid about the pieces of his Build Back Better plan that have crashed up against Democratic opposition — namely, opposition from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Biden was not coy about pointing fingers as he explained how Manchin doomed parts of his climate push, or how Sinema is blocking tax hikes on the rich and corporations.

Meanwhile, the Senate is gone for the weekend. The House is hot on its heels, finishing up some morning votes. Congressional leadership and the White House continue to finesse the package, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) telling reporters this morning that “more than 90 percent of everything is agreed to.”

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During a Thursday night CNN town hall, President Joe Biden was fairly candid about the pieces of his Build Back Better plan that have crashed up against Democratic opposition — namely, opposition from Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Biden was not coy about pointing fingers as he explained how Manchin doomed parts of his climate push, or how Sinema is blocking tax hikes on the rich and corporations.

Meanwhile, the Senate is gone for the weekend. The House is hot on its heels, finishing up some morning votes. Congressional leadership and the White House continue to finesse the package, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) telling reporters this morning that “more than 90 percent of everything is agreed to.”

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  1. Biden is just about done with coddling either of them.

  2. Yup, sounds like he’s hit the wall with them.

  3. Avatar for mymy mymy says:

    Thank you for reporting closely on the town hall; Leven mention of it is rare on any news site. Biden is candid and upfront. He’s essentially letting everyone know that Democrats need more and better Senators…

  4. Avatar for dlnyc dlnyc says:

    My instinct would be to clobber them; to run viciously truthful ads about the harm they are doing; and call them names; and rally and organize their home state critics.

    But my experience is that my instincts are not always great strategy. If anyone can torturously slow shmooz them into working for the people’s interests instead of the money interests trying to sabotage BBB, it is Joe Biden.

    I don’t have the patience for that. Joe may finally be losing his patience.

    We will see.

  5. If Biden isn’t going to kiss Manchinema’s corrupt entitled asses during a town hall on national TV, I have a feeling he has something up his sleeve. If he doesn’t give a flying fuck about pissing them off he must be ready to bring down some kind of leveraging hammer.

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