WV Sen. Manchin continues to thwart progressive efforts to transform large swaths of the American economy with measures he deems to radical. (The Hill)

The Unites States Congress, the Senate in particular, is so bitterly divided down partisan lines and nearly equal in representative numbers that it only takes 1 Senator to grand stand and make legislative priorities a pipe dream. Senator Manchin, who hails from one of the poorest, if not the very poorest state is filling the role of party pooper. He has the ability through his yea or nay vote to completely upend the Biden Administration’s most ambitions efforts to inject more fairness into the American economy.