{"id":36452,"date":"2021-06-16T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36452"},"modified":"2021-06-16T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:35:12","slug":"manchin-rebuffs-progressive-push-for-infrastructure-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36452","title":{"rendered":"Manchin rebuffs progressive push for infrastructure guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) on Wednesday said he will not guarantee\u00a0he&#8217;ll support a fast-track process for a sweeping infrastructure package, rejecting a key demand by progressive senators who want such a pledge in order to support a smaller bipartisan deal.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin stressed\u00a0hasn&#8217;t decided whether\u00a0he&#8217;ll support reconciliation, a process that will let Democrats bypass the 60-vote filibuster, for a massive infrastructure\u00a0package. But rejected the notion of horse-trading his vote in advance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would never ask any of my colleagues for an iron-clad commitment &#8230; and I expect the same from them,&#8221; Manchin said, asked about the push from his progressive colleagues for an iron-clad guarantee.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) on Wednesday said he&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36453,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36452\/revisions\/36453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}