Senator Joe Manchin
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I said, Mr. President, we've sent everybody a check.
And if we've missed anybody, it was by mistake because you intended to send everybody a damn check.
And I said, they want to go spend money and there's nobody working.
The supply chains are shut down.
There's nothing.
They're going to pay exorbitant amounts to get what they want.
You're just fueling it, sir.
Oh God, we went through all of that and that's when he got pretty vulgar and just told me, if you kill my effing bill, I'll never talk to you again.
I said, if I could kill this effing bill, you shouldn't talk to me again because if I could, I would, but I can't the way things is moving, but I can tell you, we're never going to go this way at root again.
So this is how we work, kind of work things out.
Then sure enough, one month they come back with BBB, Build Back Better.
Now they're talking $6 trillion.
That bill was $10 trillion if it was a penny with all the revamping.
I couldn't get there, guys.
And I told him, I said, Mr. President, I'm sorry.
Man, I can't get there.
And they tried for eight months, beat up me.
I mean, I had to have security.
It's pretty intense, but I can tell you one thing.
When every day the Capitol Police call you and say, your death threats are serious right now, so we'll meet you down at where you live, and we'll bring you to work, and we'll take you back home, you know things are pretty serious.