Manchin Raises Hopes Biden’s Big Bill Will Fail

After listening to Senator Manchin at the WSJ CEO Council yesterday, I believe more than ever that President Biden’s extraordinarily costly Green New Deal bill is going to be paused, then paused some more, and then killed next year.

Mr. Manchin essentially blitzed the big-government, socialist so-called triple-B spending bill, which gives me hope beyond hope. Save America, kill the bill.

Among the key points the senator made was asking: “You want me to go back to West Virginia and say, ‘Boys, if you can just stay unemployed for a little longer, you’ll get a raise’? None of this makes sense to me.”

On inflation, Mr. Manchin said 17 Nobel laureates “were wrong.” He called for “a strategic pause for spending and money creation,” adding that there have been “huge changes in our tax structures, social services, and energy. If we get any of those wrong, we’re in trouble.”… (Excerpts from The New York Sun)