Manchin says no to new round of $2k cheques (update: not quite)

[Alcibiades]

I presume he's only doing this because he knows it has Republican votes, so he'll use this vote to maintain his "record" of "independence" from (& "fiscal restraint" compared to) the Democrats. Like I've previously pointed out, though, the man has never cast a deciding vote against the Democratic Party line over the course of his nearly 10 years in the Senate. That's just not changing now.

Yeah, I agree this vote isn’t changing anything, and a lot of the takes in this thread have been very over-the-top, but I don’t get why he’s opposing them, because you would think this would be popular in WV. Maybe he’s terrified of being branded a socialist.

[Alcibiades]

I hope he switches parties at this point. I'm fed up with him. He is better than the alternatives in WV, but that makes our work in 2022 to get actual Democrats elected to rebuild the Senate majority even more important. We should consider him a no on just about every crucial piece of legislation for the next 2 years and work to bring Romney or Murkowski on board in his place.

It bears repeating, he’s not going to be a nay when he has the deciding vote.