Manchin talks to us on billionaires' tax: “I don’t like the connotation that we are targeting different people"
On Medicare expansion: "I have hard time increasing" benefits
On paid leave, Manchin said given the debt: “It doesn’t make sense to me. … I just can’t do it"
On Medicare expansion: "I have hard time increasing" benefits
On paid leave, Manchin said given the debt: “It doesn’t make sense to me. … I just can’t do it"
On the process, Manchin said “Senate is going to take time” and there’s an “awful lot of work” to do even after a framework agreement is reached on the larger bill. He said Biden would take that framework and convince House Democrats to approve the separate infrastructure bill
On adding dental, vision and hearing to Medicare: “In good conscience, I have hard time increasing basically benefits, which all of us can agree that hell I’ve loved to have this, and love to have that, when you can’t take care of what you have.”
On paid leave: “To expand social programs when we have trust funds that aren’t solvent — they are going insolvent — I can’t explain that. It doesn’t make sense to me. … I just can’t do it,” saying he can’t put a burden on his grandchildren, referring to the debt.
Asked if Biden was moving in his direction on these key sticking points, “The president has made no guarantees.” But he said they “owe it to” Biden to get a deal
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