No, he isn't.Manchin is correct, throwing trillions of dollars around like they're Monopoly money is a quick way to turn the American dollar into real Monopoly money. Unless you know everything that is in that massive new spending bill, you have no idea if it's a good idea or not. If only a small percentage of it is actually directed to infrastructure, it SHOULD be blocked and stripped down. As for it being popular, the IDEA of spending money on infrastructure is appealing, something that democrats rely on when they want to crank up a lot more new spending. I remember a certain democrat president who demanded and got billions of dollars for "shovel-ready" infrastructure jobs, then laughed about how they weren't "shovel-ready" after all.
This happens repeatedly. Democrats want to spend money but know that if they just crank up a bunch of random spending bills people will not support them, so they find a focus group approved subject people react positively to and put that on the spending bills. That way they can then just lard the things up with massive amounts of unnecessary pork designed solely to get themselves re-elected and maintain their power. Again, Manchin is correct.
Just like Trumptards that voted for a $2.3 trillion tax cut, instead of cutting spending, they went on a shopping spree.
The GQP only cares about the debt/deficit when a democrat is in office or at election time.
'I remember a certain democrat president who demanded and got billions of dollars for "shovel-ready" infrastructure jobs, then laughed about how they weren't "shovel-ready" after all'.
Yes, they were, they weren't as plentiful as Obama claimed when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was proposed.
Republicans insisted to cuts, repeatedly filibustered routine extensions of emergency unemployment benefits, blocked aid to state governments, filibustered infrastructure investment, used extreme legislative vehicles like refusing to follow precedent on the typically pro forma votes to raise the debt ceiling to extract more economically damaging government spending cuts, blocked passage of a majority of the American Jobs Act (AJA), demanded counterproductive offsets to fiscal stimulus, and attacked the Federal Reserve’s expansion of the monetary base and other policy responses intended to lower unemployment. What follows is an abbreviated chronology.
Then when it came to a vote, only 3 republicans voted for the bill.
It was too small, just like republicans and two bought and paid for democrats are doing to Biden's bill.
Then the GQP will whine, when it doesn't do much.
But they will brag how much 'pork' they brought home, even though they never voted for it, just like they did with Obama's bill.
The GQP are pure slime.