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Senator Joe Manchin on Wednesday slammed efforts by progressive members of his party to slash police department budgets, saying the Democratic Party as he conceives of it does not have “some crazy socialist agenda.”
“Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I’m a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans’ jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police,” Manchin wrote in a tweet Wednesday evening.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York progressive who has voiced support for cutting police budgets, responded to Manchin by tweeting a photo of herself during the State of the Union address in February offering what appears to be a glare in Manchin’s direction.
Manchin, one of the most moderate members of his party, could end up being the deciding vote on a number of issues should Senate control be split between Republicans and Democrats. Two Georgia Senate races headed for runoff elections in January are expected to decide the balance of power in the upper chamber. Republicans currently have 50 seats in the Senate to Democrats’ 48 seats.
Instead of defunding police departments, they should be given even more funding in order to better educate and protect officers, Manchin said in an interview with the Washington Examiner.
The West Virginia Democrat also voiced his commitment to voting against packing the courts or nixing the legislative filibuster and criticized “Medicare for all” proposals, saying Democrats should attempt to get Republicans to work with them on a good healthcare bill.
“Under no circumstances would I support packing the court or ending the filibuster if there is a 50-50 tie,” he said.
Since the police custody death of George Floyd in May, progressive Democrats have called for stripping some or all funding from police departments as a step towards combating police brutality.
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I don’t believe him. He’s a lot late on the draw. When you wait until the 11th hour to condemn evil practices..it’s just bullschiff.
Manchin is still a flaming liberal democrat but he’s right on the current agenda of the democrat party.
The democrat party leadership has allowed the radical socialist left to take over their party. The democrat party is now a socialist party with a socialist agenda which will destroy America, spreading equal misery to all except the governing socialist oligarchy.
Party of the working people? Just announce that you’re turning Republican, Joe! Welcome!
OOPS, Chuckie must be fuming.
You cannot change the spots on a leopard. Manchin is a liberal. Right now he is thinking the road about how can he be re-elected when West Virginia went for Trump and have a Republican governor. He is trying to cover his own butt. If he were truly for the working people in West Virginia, he would be a Republican, not a democrat.
Thanks Senator Joe Munchin, so proud that you are against defunding the Police. Not taking care of our Police is about the same of not taking of our dear Military. I am A LOYAL REPUBLICAN, and with aid, I do agree with you. What on earth would we do without our Police?
IMO, this is simply “media speak”. When the time comes, he’ll fall in line with Cryin’ Chuck and the rest of them. He proved that to me voting against Barrett for the Supreme Court. Too bad voters in W. VA. don’t show him the door once and for all.
Manchin’s talked this bullcrap before, those leftists will collar him for it, if he really means what he’s saying he’d get the hell outta the democrap party.