Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) put a spotlight on a bevy of issues the United States as a whole is dealing with as he gave an interview this past weekend, issues that have for the most part started under the leadership of President Joe Biden.
Manchin issues his comments as part of a Sunday air CBS News interview on “Face the Nation” alongside Margaret Brennan, all while talking about the recent ecological disaster that was the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.
“It’s time for us to get serious about this. We’re moving many, many products, many more products on the rails and on our roads than we ever did before. And we have a lot of people who don’t want any pipelines. Pipelines would help alleviate a lot of this problem with the oil that we need in our country and we will be using for quite some time to do it safer,” he explained. “But out of sight, out of mind. They are thinking, if you don’t have a pipeline, you won’t be using the product. Well, that’s far from the truth. And this is the results of people just not making good decisions. And it’s what’s broken in West Virginia and broken across the country as far as in Washington, the politics.”
Brennan spotlights that Manchin recently issued a “fiery speech” within the Senate in which he ended up being at odds with those working with the Biden administration and many of his colleagues within the Democrat Party over their “out-of-control spending and are refusing to negotiate.”
Manchin explained that one of the top priorities for U.S. officials currently should be making sure we get back “to normal” in the wake of the pandemic.
“We’ve gone from $3.5 trillion in spending to over $6.2 trillion in spending every year,” stated Manchin. “That’s just unacceptable. You’ve got to sit down. Anybody that thinks we don’t have a problem in Washington, anybody that thinks that the politics is not broken in Washington is not living in reality, does not want to face the facts and the truth.”
Manchin went on to state that the U.S. does not “even have a budget anymore” and that Biden stands in violation of many U.S. laws currently because he is already well over a month late in releasing a real budget.
“We’ve got a runaway debt. We got inflation that’s killing people,” stated Manchin. “We’ve got an unsecured energy. We have a border that’s out of control.”
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