Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who is a multi-millionaire, is still blocking President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill and opposes extending monthly child tax aid to 35 million working families, reports The Washington Post.
Manchin also refuses changing Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster, which gives Biden’s opponents even more power.
Biden has spent months of his first presidential year traveling the country to sell his $2 trillion proposal, despite knowing Manchin would block it.
Democrats allowed Manchin to cut the $3.5 trillion bill down to $2 trillion, and got nothing in return.
(Sources: The Washington Post, Open Secrets, Photo: PBS NewsHour/YouTube)