A new MBE Research poll in West Virginia finds President Biden’s approval rate upside down at 33% to 65%.
For comparison, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has an approval rate of 61% to 37%.
A new MBE Research poll in West Virginia finds President Biden’s approval rate upside down at 33% to 65%.
For comparison, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has an approval rate of 61% to 37%.
“In private, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) has had cordial conversations with the House’s progressive caucus chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), but he has also informed her that she doesn’t have leverage over him,” CNN reports.
Republican billionaire Ken Langone told CNBC that he is going to hold “one of the biggest fundraisers” he’s had for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV).
Said Langone: “Thank God for Joe Manchin. The guy’s got guts and courage, and he did what he had to do and he’ll continue to do what he has to do.”
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) weighed in on latest inflation report: “By all accounts, the threat posed by record inflation to the American people is not ‘transitory’ and is instead getting worse. From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real and DC can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day.”
Manchin had previously indicated concerns about the impact of the budget reconciliation package on inflation.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is looking for a book deal, Mother Jones reports.
“In between negotiating sessions that have raised his profile in Washington and across the nation, Manchin has held multiple conversations regarding this book project… And the project has reached the stage of a book proposal being drafted. Manchin has discussed whether the best time to present a proposal to publishers would be during the ongoing drama over the Build Back Better legislation or after a final deal is reached.”
Politico: “As Speaker Nancy Pelosi furiously worked to unite her caucus around a centerpiece of the party’s domestic agenda, Manchin is making it clear that he’s not paying much attention to what the House is crafting, memorably saying Wednesday that he has ‘no idea’ what they are doing.”
“So even as the House tries to include provisions like paid leave and immigration reform, the West Virginia Democrat is operating on the presumption that the House can do what it wants, and then he will too. Manchin opposes including paid leave in the bill, and the Senate’s nonpartisan rules referee may scrap immigration reform before he has a chance to raise a concern.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told CNN there’s a “hostile working environment” on Capitol Hill.
Said Manchin: “You want to know what’s wrong with the place? I go to work in a hostile working environment every day. If you’re a Democrat, and a Republican is up for election, you’re supposed to be against that person.”
He added: “If Donald Duck’s running against that person, you’re supposed to get money from your PAC to help the other person beat the person that you’ve been working with. And even sometimes they’ll say, ‘can you come campaign against so and so?’ And then we come back on Monday, and here’s a person that we’ve given money against.”
“After months of strenuously stating he wouldn’t budge from a $1.5 trillion maximum price tag for Democrats’ climate and safety net plan, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) acknowledged he had, in fact, agreed to a $1.75 trillion figure during an appearance on MSNBC,” Politico reports.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said the “unbelievable” Republican victories in Virginia’s statewide races Tuesday validate his concerns about inflation and moving the $1.75 trillion reconciliation package too quickly through Congress, The Hill reports.
He added: “You can read so much into all of that last night. I think it should be a call to all of us have to be more attentive to the people back home.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was “bombarded with text messages” from House progressives over the weekend and that led to the moderate senator pushing back in a public statement on Monday, Politico reports.
Said one Democratic senator: “He was mad because members kept asking him for more shit.”
Politico: “If you’ve been paying attention this year, progressives yelling at Manchin has only further entrenched him in most cases.”
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chaired by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) was unable to advance two nominees after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) didn’t show up to vote, Politico reports.
“You don’t list nominees in committee unless you’re pretty darn sure you have the votes to advance them. And Manchin, who’s made efforts to mend fences with Sanders over the party’s social spending bill, clearly didn’t have his colleague this time.”
“Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he didn’t sign off on a framework for a $1.75 trillion social spending and climate bill before it was released from the White House,” The Hill reports.
Said Manchin: “The White House knew exactly where I stood. There was a couple of concerns that we had that we needed to work through.”
He added: “I’ve been here long enough to know that when you say you signed off on things, you got to keep your word and I’m not going to be a liar or make anyone else a liar so that’s why I hadn’t.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that it is “time to vote” on the bipartisan infrastructure bill and that “holding this bill hostage is not going to work in getting my support for the reconciliation bill.”
He added that he won’t support a reconciliation bill without greater clarity: “Simply put, I will not support a bill that is this consequential without thoroughly understanding the impact that it will have on our national debt, our economy, and most importantly, all of our American people.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told CNN he’ll soon make a statement on where he sees things headed with President Biden’s agenda.
Said Manchin: “I think I will clear up a lot of things sometime today. I think there needs to be clarity on where everybody stands.”
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) signaled that he could support the $1.75 trillion price tag for Democrats’ social spending plan, even as he hasn’t said if he supports the overall framework deal, The Hill reports.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) spoke to Frank Thorp of NBC News about whether Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) support President Biden’s new budget reconciliation framework:
COONS: It’s quite clear that they back this framework, it would not have been announced without their support.
THORP: It’s not really totally clear.
COONS: It’s clear that they back this plan.
THORP: That Manchin and Sinema back this plan?
COONS: I just spoke to both of them.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Politico that a deal on the budget reconciliation “absolutely” can be reached today.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
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