CNN
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) had no kind words on Sunday for Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s surprise decision to back a reconciliation bill set to revive Democrats’ domestic agenda.
“It really looks to me like Joe Manchin has been taken to the cleaners,” Toomey told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union, attacking the bill’s provisions on corporate taxes, health-care subsidies, and climate change funds.
“And what does Joe get for this? He gets the promise that someday in the future, they’ll pass some kind of legislation about energy infrastructure,” he said. “So this is a disaster. This is going to make our recession worse. It’s gonna make inflation worse. It’s not going to do any good. I’m really surprised that Joe agreed to this.”