MSNBC unearths clip of Joe Manchin calling for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending [View all]
It’s hard to understand what Joe Manchin is doing these days, other than forcing Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell to fight over who gets to loofah his undercarriage as he dithers in the bath over infrastructure spending. Of course, the real question is whether either of those two can loofah more lovingly than the fossil fuel industry, because just eight months ago, Manchin didn’t balk at $4 trillion in infrastructure spending—so it may just be that his recent concerns have more to do with what the money will be spent on than how much we spend.
To be fair, the budget reconciliation package the Democrats are hoping to pass over Manchin’s all-too-strident objections comes to $3.5 trillion. Along with the already passed (though still-unsigned) $1.2 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill, the total cost to the Treasury would be $4.7 trillion. But, hey, are we going to blow up America’s (and the world’s) hopes and dreams over $700 billion?
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan recently unearthed a clip in which Manchin endorsed, all on his lonesome, an appropriately robust infrastructure investment—up to $4 trillion. And strangely enough, at the time, he wasn’t worried about inflation so much as the significant opportunity costs of not passing meaningful infrastructure legislation.
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