IMPORTANT UPDATE: calls back to clarify that he is NOT saying "absolutely not" to checks -- he would support smaller, more targeted checks than have been previously discussed.
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Because this has moved markets, here are 's exact words:
"I'm not for sending a check to people who already have checks."
$2K checks too big: "That's another $400B dollars."
"I don't ever remember FDR...sending a damn penny to a human being. He gave 'em a job."
And here are 's comments from the initial call. The only words he has withdrawn are "absolutely not."
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Deleting the original tweet with the misconstrued "absolutely not" in it.
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Manchin seems to be confused about both what a pandemic entails and how stimulus works. Lovely.
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This is ridiculous. Make it universal and tax back next year for higher AGI at the clawback rate you want. This doesn’t exclude anyone who needs it then.
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40% of Americans didn’t even have a spare $400 in case of emergencies BEFORE the pandemic, but go off Manchin.
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Manchin is flat out wrong. FDR "Gave em a job" because there was a) *vast* amounts of infrastructure that could be built and b) NOT A DAMN PANDEMIC HAPPENING.
All Manchin is doing is reinforcing the lie that only people who sell their labor to others have worth.
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