The perennial swing-vote senator made it clear on Friday that he’s fine with Jackson
Joe Manchin takes a break from torturing fellow Democrats.
Manchin’s support in what will likely be a party-line confirmation vote on the Senate floor wasn’t the only bone he threw to his party in today’s news cycle. As Axios reports: Obviously, the Biden administration has other fish to fry at the moment, but considering Manchin personally dealt a death blow to BBB on Fox News in December, it’s nice that he has gone to the trouble of holding out hope that he will entertain a limited salvage operation before the midterm elections, when the odds are high that Democrats will lose the governing trifecta that made BBB possible in the first place.
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