Senator Joe Manchin

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And during this, Chuck Schumer just come out directly and said he wanted to get rid of the filibuster.

That's how they were going to run it with Joe Biden.

Well, Joe Biden had always been a defender of the filibuster.

How can you flip on your values when all of a sudden now because you're in charge and you want to just shove things down people's throat?

I said, I'm not going to do that.

So myself and Kirsten Sinema voted against the filibuster, which stopped all that.

I was all for the voting.

I mean, all the concern, the Voting Rights Act and all that.

But I said, we have to find a pathway that we have.

Some Republicans, 10 Republicans will work with us.

I'll get to where Jason asked me how we got to, because it really, how it led up to what happened is unbelievable.

It gets spicy because what happened, Jason, the first thing they did was an ARP, the American Rescue Plan, was his first bill.

As soon as Joe Biden gets elected, boom, he gets sworn in.

And in February, he comes out with the ARP, American Rescue Plan, which is this big overhaul, okay?

We had just done – you all know the finances better than probably anybody observing –

We had put $3.2 trillion into the market as COVID in 2020, from March 2020 up until the end of the year, and then Joe Biden takes over.

So we already put $3.2 trillion.

He comes out with the American Rescue Plan.

They want to put another 1.9, a minimum 1.9.

Now we're at 5.1.

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