{"id":45681,"date":"2022-03-04T10:23:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45681"},"modified":"2022-03-04T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:23:32","slug":"democrats-frustrated-with-latest-manchin-pitch-on-build-back-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45681","title":{"rendered":"Democrats frustrated with latest Manchin pitch on Build Back Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats are feeling exasperated with Sen.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u2019s (D-W.Va.) latest proposal on a scaled-down version of\u00a0President Biden\u2019s Build Back Better agenda that would leave out big social-spending initiatives like expanded childcare, universal pre-kindergarten, national paid family leave and long-term home healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin is proposing that his colleagues choose one ten-year program to focus on and devote the other half of revenues raised from tax reform and prescription drug reform to deficit reduction and fighting inflation.<\/p>\n<p>He is suggesting limiting new spending to climate programs instead of an array social-spending initiatives that he says would likely get baked into the federal budget baseline for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats are feeling exasperated with&#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-45681","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\/45681","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=45681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45682,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45681\/revisions\/45682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}