White House issues damning statement against Joe Manchin

In a remarkable statement after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he would not vote for President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, the White House said Manchin's comments were "at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances." CNN's Joe Johns and Suzanne Malveaux discuss the fallout of the senator's decision. #CNN #News

[AmericanAntiCorruptionAct]

IMAGINE HOW STRONG OUR COUNTRY WOULD BE IF CONGRESS SPENT THEIR DAYS WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE WHO BUY THEM.

[Tim]

Manchin was never once going to support this. After they passed the infrastructure bill, this was dead on arrival.

[dyne]

Regular people: We saw this coming months ago.

Politicians: NOBODY COULD HAVE PREDICTED THIS!!!

[FORTHEBY_BY]

When are we going to talk about the CRISIS at the southern border???

[lanemp]

There was absolutely no way Manchin was agreeing to this bill no matter how low the cost was. We all knew this. Why are our elected officials acting so shocked.

[bigbadbob]

when you have one party voting yes and the other voting no, it appears that something is wrong. Take off the blue and red and do what is best for the taxpayers

[scratchking]

The fact that the White House was "caught off guard" by this shows just how out of touch they really are. You could have asked 1000 regular people on the streets and 90% or more knew this was coming.

[michaeljarman]

Thank God for Manchin’s standing up to outrageous spending and historic inflation!

[gigi_soreal]

Imagine how strong our country would be if the 'Majority ' in America were patriotic and represented Morals instead of Money

[DvonAntonio]

This is why there needs to be term limits and a ban on lobbying. He's obviously controlled by money.

[coleengoodell]

For Manchin to announce this on Fox is very telling.

[based_yeoman]

Deeply foolish to publicly attack Manchin like that. That's a miscalculation.

[christinavuyk]

Will America finally wake up to the selfishness of corporate politics?...nah... 😕

[MrDockett]

They can't be that stupid to think Manchin was ever in on this bill!!

[gurhanweyrah]

I saw this coming after he insisted on passing the infrastructure bill separately.

[LILLYROSE-hvcd]

I am Proud of West Virginia to STAND I AM FROM MASSACHUSETTS, I STAND WITH WEST VIRGINIA! MY AMERICAN FAMILY! WE THE PEOPLE, USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍👍

[jamesroof]

Manchin just needs to join the Republican party already.

[greybrooks]

honestly, I would have been more surprised if he DID support it.

[WeylandLabs]

Its crazy to even think that these people that are in charge wont even be around in the next 20 years making key decisions about the future of our country and children.

[mariolabita]

He is right this administration does not know what they are doing.