Posted on 10/28/2021 9:42:15 AM PDT by Signalman
Democrats are dropping family and medical paid leave from President Joe Biden's Build Back Better spending package, multiple sources confirmed to NBC News, as the party feverishly works to narrow down the bill and secure an agreement.
The move comes after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key centrist, raised objections to including guaranteed paid leave in the social safety net bill. Its removal deals a blow to Democrats who viewed the proposal as a key component of Biden's legislative agenda.
Manchin indicated to reporters that he didn't think the spending measure, known as the reconciliation bill, should be used to pass a significant policy proposal like paid leave.
"I want to look at everything —we should be examining all this stuff. There's a lot of things that could be good. But to put this in the reconciliation bill — major policy — is not the place to do it," he told reporters on Wednesday.
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Build Back .....What?? Better??? The plan is idiotic.
How utterly Stalinist MSN has become
The is no such thing as a “social safety net bill”.
Just another lie by the Leftist media to obfuscate and deflect
Good...too much of a burden on businesses...and subject to abuse. Pete Butt is a good example of that abuse.
I want to know what crazy thing they kept instead.
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