Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Sunday that he will not vote in support of President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending package this week.
In response, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said that Manchin’s position is “not acceptable.”
Multiple guests on the Sunday morning political talk shows also discussed the new federal vaccine mandates for companies with more than 100 employees.
Read The Hill’s complete coverage below.
| Manchin says he can’t support Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan |
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| Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), a key moderate Democrat, said on Sunday that he can’t support President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan.
“We don’t have the need to rush into this and get it done within one week because there’s some deadline we’re meeting or someone’s going to fall through the cracks,” Manchin said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” |
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| GOP governor: Biden’s vaccine mandate ‘increases the division’ |
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| “This is an unprecedented assumption of federal mandate authority that really disrupts and divides the country. It divides our partnership between the federal government and the states, and it increases the division in terms of vaccination when we should all be together trying to increase the vaccination uptake,” Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said. |
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