Senator Joe Manchin
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I'm thinking, what the hell do I say now?
And I said, Mr. President, I grabbed his arm.
Country needs you too.
It needs us all.
And I said, sir, I'm begging you not to.
Why don't you just put this bill that you call your American Rescue Plan.
Put it in the jurisdictional committees and let us work it.
Give us a shot clock.
Say, guys, I'm going to give you 60 days to work these bills.
Then if they don't because they just don't want you to have any success at all, do what you got to do then.
Oh, no, got to do it now, Joe.
Got to go, got to go.
Okay, so we go.
And then we shut it down there for about 12 or 14 hours one day because I thought they lost their mind.
They wanted to expand the unemployment benefits.
I said, do you understand what you're dealing with now?
You got inflation coming at you so hard because people have been cooped up.
We've sent everybody a check.
And I told him this.
He kind of giggled.