Demonstrators protest Sen. Manchin over opposition to $3.5T budget plan

Conservative News DailySeptember 28, 2021

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., arrives to chair the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, as congressional Democrats speed ahead this week in pursuit of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. Manchin, a Democratic senator vital to the bill’s fate, has balked at the price tag. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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UPDATED 6:59 AM PT – Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Demonstrators gathered to protest Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) over his opposition to Democrat’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. Members from groups including CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) and Greenpeace gathered in kayaks outside the moderate’s houseboat in Washington, D.C. on Monday holding signs that read “don’t sink citizenship” and “no climate, no deal”.

With a closely divided Senate, Manchin stands as one deciding vote Democrats need to pass the budget plan. The West Virginia lawmaker has maintained that the size of the package requires lawmaker’s due diligence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) push for a Thursday vote is “irresponsible.”

“Everybody has to keep trying to work in good faith, the best you can,” Manchin told reporters. “There’s a lot in that bill, the $3.5 (trillion) reconciliation bill. Tax codes, climate change, social reforms, there’s a lot and people need to know what’s in it. It’s going to take a while.”

Today, people in boats and kayaks floated up to Joe Manchin’s houseboat in DC to protest his opposition to the reconciliation package. pic.twitter.com/pJ1wpTEtfE

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) September 28, 2021

Greenpeace said Monday was just the first day of flotilla protests outside Manchin’s houseboat, suggesting more demonstrations are planned for the future.