Joe Manchin Says $2000 Checks Are “Not a Yes/No Question”

Today I want to talk about Joe Manchin III, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, probably the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, and he can really make life difficult for Biden getting done what he wants to get done in the Senate, particularly with respect to another round of stimulus checks. 

Yesterday Joe Manchin was on State of the Union with Jake Tapper on CNN, Jake directly asked him about two thousand dollar stimulus checks, how he would vote on that, I’ll play you that clip in a minute, but first they talked about impeachment, Manchin said he thinks Trump should be impeached but said we have to be practical.  Manchin said that the earliest the House could pass and send the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate is January Nineteenth, which is the day before Inauguration Day, so Manchin is basically saying it would be a fruitless exercise and that he would rather see this thing play out in the courts rather than in Congress because he believes that Congress’s priority should be Biden, not Trump. 

We wants to get Biden’s cabinet and other picks confirmed as soon as possible so that Congress can move on to the more important tasks of getting people vaccinated, getting people back to work, businesses opening up.  Then Jake pops the question.

So Jake asked Manchin, Joe, are you on board with two thousand dollar stimulus checks? Joe says it’s not a yes/no question. OK? And apparently what he means by that is that he’s not necessarily opposed to the dollar amount itself — otherwise presumably he would have given a flat-out “no” — but rather that it depends on who gets the money.

He said we shouldn’t send checks to people who don’t need it and they’re just gonna save it. But the natural question that Jake failed to ask Manchin is, OK, Joe, you say you might be open to two thousand dollar stimulus checks if they’re targeted, what does targeted mean to you? Jake didn’t ask that question, but Manchin mentioned two groups: the unemployed and businesses.

But that’s kind of blurring the line here, right, because when we talk about the stimulus for the unemployed, we typically call that unemployment, and when we talk about the stimulus for small businesses, that’s the PPP and EIDL, not “stimulus checks.” 

And then get this. In the blink of an eye, Joe Manchin takes the conversation from two-thousand-dollar stimulus checks to infrastructure. Yes, he said, “If you want to spend two or three trillion dollars, put people back to work” on infrastructure.

So I think this is kind of a squirrely answer, I understand that Jake didn’t have a lot of time, but I sure do wish that he had pressed Joe more on what exactly he means by “targeted” and specifically whom he has in mind to be eligible for two thousand dollar stimulus checks.

And then after this Jake asked Manchin about eliminating the filibuster on legislation, Manchin said no, he would not support that, we’ve covered that before here on the channel, he was asked by statehood for Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, he said he’d need more facts on that, a couple other topics were discussed.

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