{"id":1355707,"date":"2022-03-02T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1355707"},"modified":"2022-03-02T19:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T00:07:42","slug":"manchin-shrugs-off-build-back-better-revival-knocks-bidens-plan-to-lower-inflation-with-more-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-shrugs-off-build-back-better-revival-knocks-bidens-plan-to-lower-inflation-with-more-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin Shrugs Off \u2018Build Back Better\u2019 Revival, Knocks Biden\u2019s Plan To Lower Inflation With More Spending"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fmanchin-shrugs-off-build-back-better-revival-knocks-bidens-plan-to-lower-inflation-with-more-spending%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=1355707&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/5D797DCF-FE9D-4BE3-8F46-BC015A20A1DF-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Moderate Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin shrugged off the legislative goals President Joe Biden outlined in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, effectively icing any attempt to revive Biden\u2019s \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d climate and spending agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters shortly after the address, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/596458-manchin-pours-water-on-bidens-attempt-to-revive-build-back-better?rl=1\">The Hill<\/a> reported, Manchin said that he has not changed his mind on Biden\u2019s spending plan, and criticized the effort to fight inflation and higher costs with more government spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just can\u2019t help themselves,\u201d Manchin said when asked if he was surprised that Biden used the address to attempt to revitalize his domestic agenda. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t surprise me. Every time they talk, they talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere might be parts they want to talk about. I don\u2019t know. That was a little bit far,\u201d he said of the priorities Biden put forth. \u201cI don\u2019t know where that came from,\u201d he added, but he said that \u201c[nothing\u2019s] changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin then put down Biden\u2019s claim that his agenda, which consists mostly of new spending and economic incentives, would lower costs for Americans. \u201cI\u2019ve never found out that you can lower costs by spending more,\u201d he said. That exchange prompted Republican Utah Senator Mitt Romney, who sat with Manchin during the speech and was walking by the gaggle of reporters, to quip, \u201cYou can\u2019t say it better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin then shifted to the issue of inflation itself, specifically the continuing increase in the price of crude oil amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He reiterated his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.senate.gov\/2022\/2\/manchin-rings-alarm-on-continued-russian-crude-oil-imports\">calls<\/a> for the U.S. to stop importing hundreds of thousands of barrels of Russian oil every day, and to ramp up domestic production in order to help the U.S. and its allies fill the gaps of Russian oil production. \u201cWe have to work with our allies to backfill where areas need help around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a reporter if he was engaging his fellow Democrats on the legislation, Manchin said simply, \u201cNot until you get your financial house in order can you do that.\u201d Manchin honed in on controlling inflation as his primary concern. \u201cIt just keeps adding up and up,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cInflation is the number 1 enemy we have in America today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manchin has since floated a skeleton framework of a proposal. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/2\/manchin-outlines-compromise-bidens-175-trillion-bi\/\">Washington Examiner<\/a> reported Wednesday that Manchin offered up a compromise bill that would reform the federal tax code and allow the government to negotiate drug prices. Once the government figured out how much revenue the reforms would generate, Manchin\u2019s proposal would put half the revenue toward lowering the deficit and paying down debt, while the other half could go to a priority issue like climate investments or social spending funded for a full 10 years. Manchin has yet to discuss the proposal with the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/state-of-the-union-2022\/\">State of the Union<\/a> address, Biden called to increase the manufacturing of essential goods in America and to invest in infrastructure and supply chains. He also pitched his plan to lower costs, which included \u201cinvestments and tax credits\u201d for weatherizing and improving energy efficiency in homes and businesses, which he claims would save the average family $500 per year; investing in wind, solar, and alternative energy; lowering the price of electric vehicles, which Biden claimed would lower costs by eliminating the need to buy gasoline; investing in child and elderly care; increasing affordable housing; and investing in universal pre-kindergarten, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reported Tuesday afternoon that Biden was expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-biden-expected-to-double-down-on-climate-spending-in-sotu\">double down<\/a> on his climate and social spending agenda, while Congressional Democrats responded with calls to pass a scaled-down domestic spending package that would pass on a party-line basis through budget reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moderate Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin shrugged off the legislative goals President Joe Biden outlined in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, effectively icing any attempt to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1355707","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\/1355707","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355707\/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=1355707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}