All Bills Travel Through Manchin Roadblock.

December 17, 2021 Glen Turpening

Sen. Manchin is causing more problems for the administration and raising the ire of some of his constituents in West Virginia. (AP News)

Sen. Joe Manchin’s reluctance to endorse the Biden administration’s expanded child tax credit program is rippling through his home state of West Virginia. Manchin, a moderate Democrat, is one of the last holdouts delaying passage of President Joe Biden’s massive social and environmental package, dubbed the Build Back Better Act. The West Virginia senator has expressed concerns over multiple aspects of the roughly $2 trillion package, including the continuation of the expanded Child Tax Credit program. The expansion, passed earlier this year as part of pandemic relief legislation, boosted the monthly payments for parents and greatly expanded the scope of those eligible. In West Virginia, one of the country’s poorest states, the effect was immediate, advocates say.

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Sen. Manchin continues to be a roadblock to a more progressive agenda that the Biden Administration tried to set forth. Some of his constituents back home would like to see him loosen up and try to facilitate some of the President’s priorities considering many of people in Mountain State live well below the poverty level. Unfortunately, these facts seems to be lost on the Senator who is now more accustomed to beltway wealth and power, divorced from the real life issues back home.