Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) has repeatedly refused to support the $3.5 trillion social spending bill being pushed by Joe Biden. He has long insisted that he’d agree to something smaller—specifically $1.5 trillion, and he put a few conditions on that number as well. He reiterated just last week that $1.5 trillion was the highest he’d go. “My top-line has been $1.5 [trillion],” he said, adding that he doesn’t want “to change our whole society to an entitlement mentality.”
Are We Losing Manchin?
