Last week, Sen. Joe Manchin did the one thing Republicans—and some Democrats—all thought he wouldn’t do: He struck a deal.
—one that Republicans had threatened to hold up if Manchin miraculously did reach an agreement with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on a climate, health-care and tax measure—Manchin and Schumer announced they had done the unthinkable.
For Sen. John Cornyn , Manchin’s move seemed to provoke at least four of the five stages of grief. When Manchin faced intense Democratic criticism last year, Cornyn routinely defended his colleague to his 350,000 Twitter followers. In December,to ask if he’d join the GOP conference, calling the prospect “the greatest Christmas gift” he could imagine.
“Manchin is trying to pretend he killed BBB,” he said, referring to Biden’s sprawling Build Back Better agenda, “but really he agreed to the Green New Deal.” When asked about the GOP criticism during a press availability on Tuesday, Manchin himself was magnanimous. “They’re still my friends,” he said of his Republican colleagues. “I love ’em all.”
Other Republicans were harsh in their assessment of Manchin’s role. Sen. Pat Toomey , who worked with Manchin a decade ago on a major gun reform measure, said on Sunday that he got “taken to the cleaners.”
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