Sen. said Democrats should hit "Pause" on 's $3.5 trillion spending package, firing a significant warning shot at his party's top legislative priority.
"If the country is facing what we're facing now. ... I would ask my colleagues and all of the Senate to hit the pause button on the $3.5 [trillion]," Manchin said at the event on Wednesday.
ADVERTISEMENT."Hit the pause button as Americans. Hit the pause button," Manchin said.
Manchin doubled down on his remarks, which were made Wednesday, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday, warning he can't support a $3.5 trillion plan.
"Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation. A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not," Manchin wrote in the Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Manchin previously warned that he had "Serious concerns" about a $3.5 trillion package in a statement released hours after the Senate passed the roughly $1 trillion bill last month that he and a bipartisan group of senators helped negotiate.
Democrats are pursuing Biden's spending plan along two paths: a roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate last month and a sweeping $3.5 trillion spending package that they want to pass this fall and includes some of Democrats' biggest agenda items.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/570626-manchin-warns-dems-hit-pause-on-bidens-35t-plan
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