In recent months, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senator’s comments.

That’s amazing. Because if his daughter’s insulin plan went through, yes, they would be buying insulin for far more money. It is also one of the most offensive, condescending, shittiest things that can be said about poor people. Rich people just use their own profits to go to doctors and get the good drugs, right, Joe?

Continuing the child tax credit for another year is a core part of the Build Back Better legislation that Democrats had hoped to pass by the end of the year. The policy has already cut child poverty by nearly 30%.

Manchin’s private comments shocked several senators, who saw it as an unfair assault on his own constituents and those struggling to raise children in poverty.

Manchin gets votes from West Virginia but his constituents are in Kansas and Texas.

Manchin has also told colleagues he believes that Americans would fraudulently use the proposed paid sick leave policy, specifically saying people would feign being sick and go on hunting trips, a source familiar with his comments told HuffPost.

And so fck the people that actually ARE sick, let them lose their rent money because they dared to actually get sick. If ten out of 100 used their sick money to go to the deer camp, that’s 90% of people who are actually sick and in desperate need of help. Manchin isn’t willing to help that 90% because ten assholes went hunting.

Fck him. He is a Republican.

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