Team Biden will pay a hefty price for their attacks on Manchin

The surprise Sunday was not Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.’s announcement on “Fox News Sunday” that he won’t support President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) bill, but the White House reaction to his declaration.

It should not have been a shock. For months Machin had expressed strong concerns about the bill’s spending, tax increases, expanded welfare benefits, and anti-domestic energy provisions. Recent events – notably last week’s latest inflation numbers and a Congressional Budget Office report the week before revealing that the…