Senator Joe Manchin

I wanted a work requirement for anybody capable, able-bodied to work.

And here's the thing.

They got on me, said, Manchin's killing child tax credits.

I says, I'm killing child tax credits?

First of all, you have child tax credits up to $400,000 of income.

You really want to know who needs a child tax credits?

People right above the poverty guideline, mostly single females, above 25,000 a year, up to about 75%.

They need it, okay?

And they're working.

Please help them, okay?

And I'd go into all of this, Jason and Shamoth, and then they said, oh, no, we got to do this, that, cross the board.

I said, don't you think that rather than just sending checks to people that have children that don't work and won't work and sitting at home, why would they need child care money when they're sitting home with their children, right?

I said, it makes no sense to me at all.

I can't go home and explain it.

And my North Star has been this as long as I've been in political life.

If I can't go back to my little hometown of Farmington to the people I grew up with and explain it because I knew they wouldn't let me get by with anything.

They'd hold your feet to the fire.

And that's where that's how it is and never changed.

Let me give you the other thing about me and Bernie one time talking.

And Bernie wanted free tuition, right?