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Biden’s unending dilemma: Dealing with Joe Manchin

BY ALEX GANGITANO AND AMIE PARNES

 

President Biden has faced a dilemma through much of this first year of his presidency: He needs Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) vote to do anything in the Senate.

That political reality, which spins out of the 50-50 Senate evenly divided between the parties, became a real political crisis for the White House on Sunday after Manchin said he would not back Biden’s top political priority, the Build Back Better climate and social spending legislation.

Manchin’s decision, delivered on Fox News, appeared to catch the White House by surprise and led to strong pushback from press secretary Jen Psaki, who said the West Virginia Democrat had breached his commitments to the president.

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