{"id":41805,"date":"2021-11-02T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41805"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T23:40:57","slug":"democrats-give-manchin-earful-on-lack-of-progress-on-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41805","title":{"rendered":"Democrats give Manchin earful on lack of progress on spending bill"},"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\">Democratic senators vented their displeasure at a lunch meeting Tuesday with Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) and with the lack of progress on the $1.75 trillion climate and social spending plan that remains in limbo because of Manchin\u2019s objections to a variety of issues.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic lawmakers said they gave Manchin an earful after he accused his colleagues Monday of using \u201cshell games and budget gimmicks\u201d to mask the true cost of the legislation and then rubbed salt on the wound by declaring Tuesday he was in no rush to get a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Senators didn\u2019t address Manchin\u2019s defiant press conference directly, but they let him know that the dragging nature of the talks, in which he is a key player, is a big problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s enormous frustration with the slow pace. We\u2019ve got to get this resolved and done,\u201d said one Democratic senator who summarized the meeting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senators vented their displeasure at&#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-41805","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\/41805","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=41805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41806,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41805\/revisions\/41806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}