On the bipartisan infrastructure and budget reconciliation bills, SenSanders tells GStephanopoulos: “I think we're gonna work it out, but it would really be a terrible, terrible shame for the American people if both bills went down.'
, I-Vt., doubled down on the need to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure and budget reconciliation bills.
Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., another moderate Democrat, are key votes in the evenly divided Senate -- Democrats need all 50 votes to pass the budget reconciliation. Sinema has also expressed concern over the price tag of the bill. Many progressives have criticized Manchin over his calls for a strategic pause and have said they will not vote to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill without the budget bill, putting the infrastructure bill in jeopardy. Sanders reiterated that point in aManchin, a key negotiator on the bipartisan infrastructure deal, has said he is optimistic that even if progressives don't vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill that there could be enough support from Republicans to pass it.
"If you don't need bridges fixed or roads fixed in your state, I do in West Virginia," Manchin added."I have got all the problems that we have addressed in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and that's the one that has the emergency." In response, Manchin only said that he did vote to use reconciliation, a means for Congress to adjust budgets including through tax spending, because he was opposed to the 2017 tax cuts implemented under the Trump administration. Corporate rates were slashed from 35% to 21%, adding over $1 trillion to the national debt.
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