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Consider it dead, along with voting/medical rights, despite Pelosi's theatrical drama
Using a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, the budget resolution is protected from being filibustered in the Senate, allowing a simple majority to approve the legislation in each chamber.
With the evenly divided Senate, Manchin is a needed vote for Democrats. They can pass the budget bill with 50 votes, meaning all Democratic-voting senators need to vote "aye" because no Republicans are expected to support the massive legislation.
But, Manchin wrote Thursday, "I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs."
Wall Street bailouts (roughly 3.5 trillion every two and a half years)? No problem
Probably just as good, we're not supposed to have that much pork in our diets anyway.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 03 2021, @04:41PM
Joe Manchin continues to represent the views and opinions of his constituents, as he is bound to do.
He has not, however, been elected to the presidency and as such does not have a veto, rather than a single vote in the senate which is irrelevant except on the narrowest of marginal votes. This doesn't make him president of anything, as opposed to a hurdle to fustakrakich's fantasies concerning what should happen. Fiscal concerns in particular drive a lot of his logic, and that of many other people's positions - but apparently that doesn't matter to fustakrakich, and by his lights shouldn't matter to anyone else, for reasons that are unclear.
But the blamegame keeps rolling strong.