Down Range with AWR Hawkins – Weekly Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he was willing to do a Democrat-backed infrastructure package with the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority to pass it in the Senate.

Manchin said, “We have two tracks, and that’s exactly what I believe is going to happen. We’ve worked on the one track. We’re going to work on the second track. There’s an awful lot of need, and everything they talked about is something we need. I didn’t vote for the 2017 tax cuts under President Trump. I thought they were weighted too much toward the high end if you will. I think we need to make some adjustments. I’m willing to step forward to make the adjustments. I’ve been clear about that. But we also have to take into account where we are in this country. What our debt structure is. We’re $28.5 trillion. We cannot continue to add on things that we can’t pay for. I’ve always said this. We’re writing checks our kids can’t ever cash. This is going to put a heck of a burden on the next generation. We have to be aware of that. There’s a lot of need of that. Whether it’s child tax credits or helping the kids have a start in life, whether it’s fixing a lot of the human infrastructure that has fallen by the wayside of helping middle-class hardworking people have a chance to get ahead and […]

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