Manchin Rejects Sanders’ $3.5 Trillion Budget in Op-Ed, Imperiling Its Future

(L): Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-W.Va.), speaks at Cabell-Huntington Health Center in Huntington, W.Va., on July 8, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo); (R): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gestures at the Capitol building in Washington, on July 22, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

News Analysis

In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has come out squarely against Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) expansive budget resolution. Manchin’s opposition puts the bill—which President Biden considers an integral part of his “build back better” agenda—in grave danger of failure in the Senate.