- “We’ve gone from $3.5 trillion in spending to over $6.2 trillion in spending every year,” Manchin said.
- “That’s just unacceptable. You’ve got to sit down. Anybody that thinks we don’t have a problem in Washington, anybody that thinks that the politics is not broken in Washington is not living in reality, does not want to face the facts and the truth.”
- Manchin said that the U.S. doesn’t “even have a budget anymore” and that Biden is in violation of U.S. law right now because he is a month late in putting out his budget.
