: Manchin wants to ‘pause’ $3.5 trillion spending plan until 2022: report

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Sen. Joe Manchin wants a “strategic pause” until 2022 on President Joe Biden’s sweeping $3.5 trillion spending plan, according to a new report.

Axios reported Sunday that Manchin wants to delay voting on the plan until next year, which would be a severe blow to the Biden administration’s economic agenda. The report cited remarks Manchin made to a group of Procter & Gamble
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