{"id":856072,"date":"2021-10-07T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=856072"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T14:28:34","slug":"bernie-sanders-accuses-democrats-manchin-and-sinema-of-sabotage-in-tirade-against-fellow-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-accuses-democrats-manchin-and-sinema-of-sabotage-in-tirade-against-fellow-senators\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Accuses Democrats Manchin And Sinema Of \u2018Sabotage\u2019 In Tirade Against Fellow Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbernie-sanders-accuses-democrats-manchin-and-sinema-of-sabotage-in-tirade-against-fellow-senators%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=856072&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>Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders accused two of his fellow senators Wednesday of sabotaging the $3.5 trillion spending package during a 15-minute tirade.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders criticized Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of holding the spending plan hostage despite 48 other senators and President Joe Biden supporting it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo people do not have the right to sabotage what 48 want, what the president of the United States wants. That, to me, is wrong,\u201d Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?515216-1\/senator-sanders-calls-senators-manchin-sinema-offer-specifics-cuts-budget-reconciliation-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2344497607655\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Bernie Sanders: \u201cTwo people do not have the right to sabotage what 48 want and what the President of the United States wants.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZxVEUcUYIh\">pic.twitter.com\/ZxVEUcUYIh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1445912971201421317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Manchin and Sinema have both been outspoken about their opposition to the massive spending package, with Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/joe-manchin-1-5-trillion-top-line-spending-number-reconciliation-joe-biden-wants-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wanting<\/a> to cut it down to <a href=\"https:\/\/static.politico.com\/1e\/ef\/159cabd547868585f9b1a8f06388\/july-28-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1.5 trillion<\/a> and warning that an expensive reconciliation budget would create an \u201centitlement mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.3967611336032\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says his maximum number for reconciliation is $1.5 trillion because he wants to avoid \u201cchanging our whole society to an entitlement mentality.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ylwVUrCf7H\">pic.twitter.com\/ylwVUrCf7H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1443622277405413378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanders shot back at Manchin\u2019s prediction Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs protecting working families and cutting childhood poverty an \u2018entitlement?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes Sen. Manchin really believe that seniors are not entitled to digest their food, and that they\u2019re not entitled to hear and see properly?\u201d Sanders pressed. The package would expand Medicare to cover vision, dental and hearing aids. \u201cIs that really too much to ask in the richest country on Earth \u2013 that elderly people have teeth in their mouth and can see and can hear?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders then reiterated his support for a \u201csingle-payer program.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/04\/how-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-fare-in-their-own-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here\u2019s How Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema Fare In Their Own States)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1445778664486957067?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Wednesday he supports helping seniors and young children but didn\u2019t specify what that meant. He also expressed support for lowering drug prices and tax reform, both of which Sanders spoke about during his 15-minute speech.<\/p>\n<p>Sinema, meanwhile, has been outspoken for weeks about the high price tag of the reconciliation package, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/squad-rips-sinema-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a> in July she would \u201cwork in good faith to develop this legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sinema has been subject to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/05\/kyrsten-sinema-reconciliation-daca-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several protests<\/a>, including one in a bathroom, by left wing activists demanding to know why she won\u2019t support several provisions of the package.<\/p>\n<p>The senator also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/02\/inexcusable-kyrsten-sinema-accuses-house-democrats-holding-infrastructure-bill-hostage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleged<\/a> Democrats were holding \u201chostage\u201d the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act by tying it to the $3.5 trillion spending bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders accused two of his fellow senators Wednesday of sabotaging the $3.5 trillion spending package during a 15-minute tirade.Sanders criticized Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin &#8230;<\/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-856072","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\/856072","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=856072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856072\/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=856072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}