Senator Joe Manchin

I said, I've been honest with everybody.

I said, you guys want to work until the cows come home.

That's fine.

I can't do this.

And he says, you know, I've cut it down from six, from 6 trillion to three trillion.

I says, Bernie, you and I know the game that's played here.

You didn't cut it down.

All you did was cut the timing down from 10 years to five years or three years to make it look like you were cutting them out.

You know, they're never going to get rid of any of this once you start giving everything away.

Went through all of that.

So he says, you know, I can kill this bill.

And I'm thinking at first when he said that, I says,

Well, Bernie, if you're saying you can kill the bill here in the Senate and Vermont doesn't need any infrastructure, your roads and bridges, internet connections, your water and sewer line, everything's great, then you should vote against it.

He said, no, I'm not talking about here, Joe.

I'm talking about on the other side in the House with all the liberals and the progressives over there.

So I didn't think of anything.

We passed it that night.

And boom, the bill gets held up.

You remember that?

And it kept getting held up.