Joe Manchin reportedly complained that low-income parents receiving a monthly child tax credit would spend the money on drugs, despite data showing the money overwhelmingly goes to basic necessities
Yacht guy Joe Manchin. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Over the weekend, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin III personally tanked the Democrats’ $2 trillion spending bill, surprising many of his colleagues and even the president, who apparently believed the Build Back Better Act finally had Manchin’s support.
Or that was his public-facing explanation. Privately, HuffPost reports, Manchin complained that low-income Americans would blow any extra funds an expanded social safety net would give them. Specifically, Manchin took aim at the child tax credit, HuffPost reports, speculating that parents who received monthly payments would spend them on drugs.
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