{"id":1132253,"date":"2021-12-19T14:04:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1132253"},"modified":"2021-12-19T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:04:14","slug":"pressley-accuses-manchin-of-showing-contempt-for-the-american-people-after-opposing-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pressley-accuses-manchin-of-showing-contempt-for-the-american-people-after-opposing-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressley Accuses Manchin Of Showing \u2018Contempt\u2019 For The American People After Opposing Spending Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpressley-accuses-manchin-of-showing-contempt-for-the-american-people-after-opposing-spending-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1132253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley expressed her frustration with the stalemate of President Joe Biden\u2019s progressive Build Back Better agenda on \u2018State of the Union with Jake Tapper\u2019 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Laying the blame firmly on Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin\u2019s shoulders, Pressley stated, \u201cWe cannot allow one lone senator from West Virginia to obstruct the president\u2019s agenda, to obstruct the people\u2019s agenda. Jake, all I want for Christmas is a senator that has compassion for the American people and not contempt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accusing Manchin of \u201ctorpedoing [the Democrats\u2019] opportunity to advance unprecedented advancements,\u201d Pressley stated that if Manchin was serious about addressing issues like inflation and poverty, he would support the Build Back Better bill \u201cso we can, in fact, build back better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchin told Fox News\u2019 Brett Baier on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/19\/joe-manchin-no-vote-joe-biden-build-back-better-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunday<\/a> that after months of negotiations, he could not vote to continue with that legislation, citing concerns about the national debt and whether the bill would effectively deal with the issues it was trying to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of good,\u201d he conceded,&nbsp;\u201cbut that bill is a mammoth piece of legislation,\u201d pointing out that it is not even being voted on like a normal bill, but being pushed through budget reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchin.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/manchin-statement-on-build-back-better-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press statement<\/a> released shortly afterward, Manchin skewered his fellow Democrats. \u201cMy Democratic colleagues in Washington are determined to dramatically reshape our society in a way that leaves our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face. I cannot take that risk with a staggering debt of more than $29 trillion and inflation taxes that are real and harmful to every hard-working American at the gasoline pumps, grocery stores and utility bills with no end in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further added that the American people deserve transparency, saying that Congressional Budget Office had determined the true cost of the bill would be $4.5 trillion, or double what the bill\u2019s supporters claim. \u201cThey continue to camouflage the real cost of the intent behind this bill,\u201d he concluded. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/10\/congressional-budget-office-three-trillion-permanent-programs-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: CBO Releases New Build Back Better Analysis, Adds Trillions To Estimate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked if it might be better to break up the bill into smaller pieces, focusing on high priority items, Pressley rejected the idea. Instead, she stated she was going to remain focused on keeping the pressure on Manchin, suggesting that the White House needed to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Pressley said that she supports \u201cthe White House using the full weight of this presidency to lean on this senator, to show solidarity with this Democratic Party and with the American people and to stop obstructing the president\u2019s agenda, which is the people\u2019s agenda. This is a mammoth bill to address a mammoth hurt. Let\u2019s get it done.\u201d Pressley concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin said that instead of trying to pass such a large spending bill, Congress should be more focused on tackling the omicron variant of COVID-19. He also said the government should be addressing inflation that has \u201charmed a lot of Americans,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/manchin-says-he-cannot-vote-for-build-back-better-ive-done-everything-humanly-possible\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> by Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley expressed her frustration with the stalemate of President Joe Biden\u2019s progressive Build Back Better agenda on \u2018State of the Union with Jake Tapper\u2019 on Sunday.Laying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}