The Senate returns after a monthlong recess to a packed schedule, including deadlines to keep the government open and a crucial stretch for President Biden's domestic agenda.
"There's no way we can get this done by the 27th if we do our job. There's so much differences that we have here," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a vital swing vote on the multitrillion-dollar bill, said Sunday on CNN's"State of the Union."
Asked about progressives' threats to block the infrastructure bill, which he co-wrote, without reconciliation, Manchin said that if they"play politics with the needs of America, I can tell you, America will recoil." He said he favors raising the corporate tax rate to 25 percent and the capital gains tax rate to 28 percent, as well as a minimum corporate tax of 15 percent. The level of tax increases will also be contentious as Democrats need to get nearly every one of their members in both chambers on board.
Manchin didn't say which provisions in the emerging package he would oppose in an interview on NBC's"Meet the Press." But he poured cold water on some of the climate change targets that are a priority for the left, as well as for the White House and Democratic leaders. Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., responded to Manchin on CNN, saying,"Many of us made a major compromise in going from the $6 trillion bill that we wanted, supported by the overwhelming majority of Democrats, down to $3.5 [trillion].""And it would be a really sad state of affairs for the American people, for Congress, if both of those bills went down," Sanders said.
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