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Manchin? BIDEN’S favorite
Yup! Manchin's fixin' to represent the folks in his state... someday.
Sen. Joe Manchin suggests Child Tax Credit ... - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com › Politics › storyDec 20, 2021 — Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., privately questioned whether parents would misuse Child Tax Credit payments to buy drugs, according to three sources ...
West Virginia faith leaders call for permanent expansion of ...
https://www.wsaz.com › 2022/05/24 › west-virginia-faith-...May 24, 2022 — “In the bishops pastoral, from 1986, Economic Justice for All, ... “Senator Manchin has always supported the existing child tax credit that ..."
Who killed the expanded child tax credit?
Joe Manchin dealt the final blow. But the reasons it lapsed are deeper than one man.
So why does Manchin oppose it anyway? I suspect it has a lot to do with being a Democratic senator from a state that Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2020 by about 40 points. Manchin barely hung onto his seat in 2018 during a heavily Democratic year, and it’s understandable he doesn’t want to go too far out on a limb for a big government spending program. Millions of West Virginians benefited from the policy, but it’s ultimately a very conservative state skeptical of liberal policy initiatives. (Not to mention voting against your immediate economic interests is pretty common — plenty of wealthy people in blue states like California and Connecticut vote for candidates who’ll raise their taxes.).."