Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, infuriated Democrats by refusing to pass the Biden administration’s multi-trillion tax-and-spend “Build Back Better” agenda. At the time, he said it would stoke inflation.
But now he’s agreed to approve elements of that same plan — a scaled down, $400-billion version of BBB that he says will fight inflation.
“And I think it’s a great piece of legislation,” Manchin told CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper on Sunday: