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

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I'm under the impression there are multiple republican votes for a clean $1,400 increase.

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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.

Won't the $2k be part of a larger Democratic stimulus bill though?

Theres a clean house bill that's just for $1400. I assume Schumer will take that up.

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I think Schumer can get Manchin on board with a larger aid bill. Atleast that's what I've gleamed from Manchin's comments. I think that's where we're heading anyway.

Schumer wont waste reconciliation on just checks anyway, so we'll get one large stimulus bill.

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Can we all chill now?

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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1347619095877971976
AHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

but manchin will vote against biden 50%+ of the time imo

Better than 100%.

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Manchin's statement from earlier tanked the stock market. That's probably why he released a follow up statement.