AP Melts Down Over Manchin, While CNN Analyst Tells Him to Ditch Dems
By Nick Arama | Dec 17, 2021 6:45 PM ET
The media has been melting down, blaming Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) for killing the Build Back Better (BBB) bill at least for this year, at least till March and likely permanently.
The AP scolded Manchin as the “single senator” who was about to “seriously set back an entire presidential agenda.” ABC News shared their story.
A single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda. https://t.co/0pvzruT6mV
— ABC News (@ABC) December 17, 2021
“In an extraordinary display of political power in the evenly split 50-50 Senate, a single senator is about to seriously set back an entire presidential agenda,” the AP wrote, adding, “despite Democrats slashing Biden’s big bill in half and meeting the senator’s other demands, Manchin is no closer to voting yes” on Biden’s massive Build Back Better domestic spending package.
“Failing to deliver on Biden’s roughly $2 trillion social and environmental bill would be a stunning end to the president’s first year in office,” the AP wrote.
The AP story called Manchin an “uneven negotiator” and said it was “unclear” what he wanted in a final package that he could stomach.
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