
Democrats want extra senators like Joe Manchin
Sen. Joe Manchin, the self-styled conservative Democrat from West Virginia, is using progressives loopy — and he doesn’t appear to thoughts.
Manchin says President Joe Biden’s $1.9-trillion COVID aid invoice is simply too large, and he needs to chop it. He says he strongly opposes a $15 federal minimal salary, one in every of Biden’s best crusade guarantees. He introduced final week that he received’t vote to substantiate Biden’s nominee to move the Place of job of Control and Finances, Neera Tanden, as a result of her campaign-year tweets struck him as too partisan. He hasn’t made up our minds whether or not to fortify Biden’s selection for Internal secretary, Deb Haaland, as a result of she has advocated difficult legislation of coal and herbal fuel, two vital industries in West Virgi...