Pressley: Manchin ‘Never Negotiated in Good Faith,’ ‘All I Want for Christmas Is a Senator with Compassion’

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PRESSLEY: "He has continued to move the goalposts. He has never negotiated in good faith. And he is obstructing the President's agenda, 85 percent of which is still left on the table. And in obstructing the President's agenda, he is obstructing the people's agenda. I was listening to his interview earlier today, and he said it's a mammoth bill. You're right. It's a mammoth bill to address mammoth hurt, you know, to lower the cost of eldercare, childcare, prescription drug costs, the child tax credit, which is so critical in combating child poverty. West Virginia, I believe, is seventh in the country when it comes to child poverty. So, by not advancing the Build Back Better Act, not only do we fail to meet the needs of the American people, their mammoth hurt in the midst of this unprecedented pandemic and pandemic-induced recession, not only that, but we are going to put in his district, in his state, 50,000 more children at risk of going back into poverty by not advancing the Build Back Better Act, because the child tax credit is in that and it expired on Friday. Moreover, in his interview, he spoke about inflation. We know that there is inflation because of the impacts of this pandemic. So the most responsible thing that we can do is to pass the Build Back Better Act. We cannot allow one lone senator from West Virginia to obstruct the President's agenda, to obstruct the people's agenda. Jake, all I want for Christmas is a senator that has compassion for the American people, and not contempt."