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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOof, Bernie on Manchin:
I also find it amusing that Sen. Manchin indicates his worry about the deficit after voting just this week for a military budget of $778 billion, four times greater than Build Back Better over ten years and $25 billion more than the president requested.Link to tweet
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Oof, Bernie on Manchin: (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2021
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Fiendish Thingy
(15,842 posts)1. He's right. Nt
leftstreet
(36,128 posts)2. DURec
Irish_Dem
(50,318 posts)3. Bernie knows it is not about the cost of the bill.
Bernie knows what it is about.
lapucelle
(18,639 posts)4. Others find it amusing that some legislators still support the $1,500,000,000,000 F-35 fighter jet
boondoggle simply because it brings home the pork and and keeps the military-industrial lobbyists in a generous mood.
Oof, indeed.