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