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

[Antonio the Sixth]

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[Antonio the Sixth]

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.

Didn't he help confirm some judge that Collins and Murkowski were opposed to?

[Antonio the Sixth]

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.

Will that get 10 Republican votes?

Reconciliation

We can't waste a reconciliation bill on just the checks. We need the checks, money for states, boosted unemployment insurance, and a lot of more urgent financial relief to avoid a recession.