WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin came out against a $3.5 trillion budget bill on Thursday, throwing cold water on one of President Joe Biden's top legislative ambitions.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal opinion section, the West Virginian called on his party to hit "a strategic pause" on the legislation, rejecting the idea of "artificial political deadlines" to advance it.
"I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs," Manchin wrote
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