Sunday shows – Manchin says he cannot back Biden spending plan

by The Hill staff - 12/19/21 11:36 AM ET

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and his staff return from the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday, December 9, 2021 to pay their respects to the late Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. — Greg Nash

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on Sunday that he will not vote for President Biden’s Build Back Better Act.

Manchin said Biden knew that he had serious concerns about how the 2,000-plus page spending and climate bill was shaping up.

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Manchin says he will not vote for Build Back Better: ‘This is a no’

By ALEXANDER BOLTON

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced on “Fox News Sunday” that he will not vote for President Biden’s “mammoth” climate and social spending bill, essentially killing the White House’s top legislative priority.

“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, I just can’t. I tried everything humanly possible, I can’t get there” he told host Bret Baier.

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Sanders: Let Manchin vote no on Build Back Better ‘in front of the whole world’

By CAROLINE VAKIL

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed his frustration with Sen. Joe Manchin after the West Virginia Democrat said Sunday he would not vote for President Biden’s social spending package.

“I think he’s gonna have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia,” Sanders told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.”

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Pressley slams Manchin after he says he will vote no on Build Back Better

By MYCHAEL SCHNELL

“He has continued to move the goalposts, he has never negotiated in good faith. and he is obstructing the President’s agenda. 85 percent of which is still left on the table. And in obstructing the president’s agenda, he is obstructing the people’s agenda,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) told co-host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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GOP senators rip Democrats over inflation: Party agenda ‘hurting the poorest families’

By LEXI LONAS

Republican Sens. Rick Scott (Fla.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) on Sunday slammed Democrats over inflation in interviews with John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM.

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Fauci says omicron variant is ‘raging through the world’

By MYCHAEL SCHNELL

“The one thing that’s very clear, and there’s no doubt about this, is its extraordinary capability of spreading, its transmissibility capability. It is just, you know, raging through the world, really,” Anthony Fauci told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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Fauci: We did not anticipate extent of omicron’s mutations

By CAROLINE VAKIL

President Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday that while officials anticipated new coronavirus variants, they did not anticipate the extent of omicron’s mutations.

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Holiday travel for unvaccinated ‘not a great idea,’ Collins says

By JOSEPH CHOI

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins said on Sunday that holiday travel would not be advisable for unvaccinated people due to the quickly spreading omicron variant.

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NIH director says COVID-19 is the enemy, not the ‘people in the other political party’

By JOSEPH CHOI

Francis Collins, the outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed during an interview on Sunday that people should view the pandemic as the enemy instead of fighting amongst themselves.

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Republican governor says Trump reelection bid would be ‘bad’ for GOP and US

By JOSEPH CHOI

“I think that’d be bad for the party and bad for President Trump and bad for the country. So I don’t think he’s gonna run and I would — my advice would be that he did not,” Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said.

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Sununu won’t say if he would support a Trump 2024 run

By MYCHAEL SCHNELL

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) on Sunday refused to say if he would support former President Trump should he wage another presidential bid in 2024, instead emphasizing the importance of next year’s midterm elections.

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