West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin
Joseph (Joe) ManchinSunday shows the preview: New variants of COVID-19 spread across the USA; Redditors shake up Wall Street with Gamestop shares Biden wants Democrats to keep Trump’s trial short Joe Manchin can show the Senate a better way forward (D), a decisive vote in the Senate, expressed frustration on Friday with an interview that Vice President Harris gave a television station in the state and said that the White House did not notify him in advance.
Speaking with NBC affiliate WSAZ, the center Democrat said the vice president’s interview “was not a way of working together” and asked the White House to help find a “bipartisan path to the future”.
“I saw [the interview], I couldn’t believe it. Nobody called me [about it], ”Manchin said, according to WSAZ. “We will try to find a bipartisan way forward, but we need to work together. This is not a way of working together. “
Harris gave the interview to promote the White House coronavirus relief proposal.
“In your case in West Virginia, one in seven families is describing your home as starving, one in six is unable to pay rent and one in four small businesses is permanently closing or has already closed, so it’s a big problem in West Virginia and across the country, ”Harris told WSAZ. “And that is why the president and I are offering the American Rescue Plan.”
A request for further comment from the Manchin office was not immediately returned. The White House also did not immediately return an email about the senator’s comments.
Manchin is seen as one of the most important votes in the Senate divided during President Biden’s first 100 days in office. The West Virginia senator expressed some reluctance over some of the provisions of the White House COVID-19 relief plan, seen as Biden’s first legislative push, including the $ 1,400 direct payments to Americans in the bill. He had previously supported a bill in December that provided for payments of $ 600 for Americans who made less than $ 75,000 a year.
Some Republican senators issued their own call on Sunday for a bipartisan compromise bill that the senator Bill Cassidy
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