{"id":45511,"date":"2022-03-02T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45511"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:39:56","slug":"manchin-pours-water-on-bidens-attempt-to-revive-build-back-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45511","title":{"rendered":"Manchin pours water on Biden&#8217;s attempt to revive Build Back Better"},"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\">West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) poured cold water on President Biden\u2019s attempt to revive the core elements of his Build Back Better agenda, questioning the president\u2019s claim that passing a $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion spending package would \u201clower costs\u201d for most Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just can\u2019t help themselves,\u201d Manchin quipped when asked by reporters after Biden\u2019s State of the Union speech whether he was surprised by the president\u2019s effort to try to use the moment to try to revive his stalled climate and social spending plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where that came from,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing\u2019s changed,\u201d he said.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D)&#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-45511","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\/45511","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=45511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45512,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45511\/revisions\/45512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}