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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4986619" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/politics/joe-manchin-reconciliation-pause/index.html[/URL]&quot;In a strongly worded op-ed published in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/manchin-pelosi-biden-3-5-trillion-reconciliation-government-spending-debt-deficit-inflation-11630605657" target="_blank">the Wall Street Journal </a>on Thursday, the moderate senator called on fellow Democrats to &quot;hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation,&quot; referring to the bill that can be approved in the Senate by just a simple majority -- meaning all 50 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus have to support the bill or it will collapse since all 50 Republicans are expected to oppose it.&quot;Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation,&quot; he wrote in the op-ed. &quot;A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4986619, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/politics/joe-manchin-reconciliation-pause/index.html[/URL] "In a strongly worded op-ed published in [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/manchin-pelosi-biden-3-5-trillion-reconciliation-government-spending-debt-deficit-inflation-11630605657']the Wall Street Journal [/URL]on Thursday, the moderate senator called on fellow Democrats to "hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation," referring to the bill that can be approved in the Senate by just a simple majority -- meaning all 50 members of the Senate Democratic Caucus have to support the bill or it will collapse since all 50 Republicans are expected to oppose it. "Instead of rushing to spend trillions on new government programs and additional stimulus funding, Congress should hit a strategic pause on the budget-reconciliation legislation," he wrote in the op-ed. "A pause is warranted because it will provide more clarity on the trajectory of the pandemic, and it will allow us to determine whether inflation is transitory or not." [/QUOTE]

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