Cori Bush rips Joe Manchin for ‘anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant’ opposition to spending bill

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“I trust the scientists who have shown us what our future will look like if we fail to meaningfully address the climate crisis. I trust the patients and doctors crying out for comprehensive health coverage for every person in America,” the Missouri Democrat added. “Joe Manchin’s opposition to the Build Back Better Act is anti-Black, anti-child, anti-woman and anti-immigrant,” Bush added. “Senator Manchin must support the Build Back Better Act.”

Bush, who is black, also said that the minority communities who would be affected by the bill “are overwhelmingly excluded from the bipartisan infrastructure bill,” which has not yet been voted on in the House but has passed in the Senate.

Progressive Democrats are getting increasingly frustrated with Manchin, who hails from West Virginia, and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. The two centrist Democrats have been holdouts standing in the way of President Joe Biden’s ambitious legislative agenda.

On Monday, Manchin accused Democrats of playing “shell games” with the cost estimates of the latest social welfare spending deal, which is half of the initial $3.5 trillion Democrats hoped to spend.

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Manchin suggested the measure as written ignores the impact of spending on inflation and the U.S. debt, which has already reached $29 trillion.

“How can I in good conscience vote for a bill that proposes massive expansion of social programs when vital programs like Social Security and Medicare face insolvency, and benefits can start being reduced as soon as 2026 in Medicare and 2033 in Social Security?” Manchin said. “How does that make sense? And I don’t think it does.”