In an interview on CBS' podcast “The Takeout” published Friday, Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) said the 17 points the Biden administration has used to justify spending on the American Rescue Plan He said that the Nobel laureates were “17 educated idiots” and said: What the Biden administration wanted to hear because it “paid for it.”
Mr. Manchin said: [relevant remarks begin around 12:05] Inflation, immigration, and Afghanistan are the biggest blind spots for the Biden administration and the Harris campaign, and he began by saying the following about inflation: ”
He added that both parties sent out stimulus checks during the Trump era, and they never did so during the Great Depression, but the pandemic is an unknown situation and “there are things we can't do and things we should do.” It wasn't.” I'll go anywhere. That was a mistake, I found out later. [side] Be careful. …And by the time that was over and the election was over in 2020, we had funneled $3.2 trillion, most of it in a bipartisan way. Joe Biden is elected and he appears. When I hear that they want to implement the American Rescue Plan, I say something on the floor. [through] settlement. “
He further said: That's because unemployment benefits were extended and there was an effective vaccine. So I said to him, you have a vaccine that works, there are people who have money because we sent checks to everyone, and if we didn't send checks; That was a mistake, because you tried to send everyone a check, and I said, and they're not going anywhere now. They can't, they're stuck at home…and they're going to go out there and investigate…the supply chain is broken, weak, things are shut down, they're going to pay — I want this, I'll pay any price to get it, and they're going to raise it. When we do this, inflation hits hard and we're still keeping people out of the labor force because they can't work even though we're going to extend unemployment benefits until October 2021. You won't be threatened with coming back and losing your unemployment benefits. A perfect storm is hitting you. … At that time they kicked out 17 Nobel Prize winners, and I said, 17 people who say what you want to hear just because you're paying them. Educated fool. ”
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