Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed Democrat leadership after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that he was going to vote against President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, saying that “we knew” Manchin was going to vote against the bill “months ago.”
“People can be mad at Manchin all they want, but we knew he would do this months ago,” she wrote on Twitter. “Where we need answers from are the leaders who promised a path on [Build Back Better] if [the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework] passed: Biden & Dem leaders. *They* chose to move BIF alone instead of w/ BBB, not Manchin. So they need to fix it.”
People can be mad at Manchin all they want, but we knew he would do this months ago.
Where we need answers from are the leaders who promised a path on BBB if BIF passed: Biden & Dem leaders. *They* chose to move BIF alone instead of w/ BBB, not Manchin.
So they need to fix it.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 19, 2021
Ocasio-Cortez’s comments come after Manchin announced he would not be voting for the Democrats’ multi-trillion dollar social spending bill.
“I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can’t. I’ve tried everything humanly possible. I can’t get there,” Manchin told Fox News anchor Bret Baier over the weekend. “This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do. And the president has worked diligently. He’s been wonderful to work with.”
“He knows I’ve had concerns and the problems I’ve had and, you know, the thing that we should all be directing our attention towards, the variant, a COVID that we have coming back at us in so many different aspects in different ways, it’s affecting our lives again,” he added.
