News Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs

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Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs​

Tara Golshan and Arthur Delaney
Huffington Post
20 Dec 2021

WASHINGTON — After months of haggling with President Joe Biden and other Democrats, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) dashed his party’s hopes on Sunday by announcing he wouldn’t vote for the Build Back Better legislation.
Publicly, his biggest gripes are about the cost of the bill. But privately, Manchin has told his colleagues that he essentially doesn’t trust low-income people to spend government money wisely.

In recent months, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senator’s comments.

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[Burnt Offerings]

What a scumbag that guy is. A lifetime in politics and his state is still one of the poorest in the entire country, unbelievable