Keep pulling the thread on Joe Manchin.
China is providing significant support and defense assistance to Iran.
The US national debt is approaching $40 trillion.
The US national debt has increased by over $1 trillion in the last five months, which is the fastest rate of increase in the nation's history.
US interest payments on the national debt have surpassed $1 trillion, exceeding the country's total defense spending.
In 2020, Senator Joe Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema were the key votes preventing the Democratic party from eliminating the Senate filibuster.
Joe Manchin blocked the Build Back Better bill, which he asserts would have cost $10 trillion and caused a global recession or depression.
Within one year of the American Rescue Plan's passage, the US government injected $5.1 trillion of spending into the economy, nearly doubling the typical government outlay for that period.
The current US conflict with Iran was initiated without any input from or prior knowledge provided to Congress.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq significantly contributed to the accumulation of US national debt.
Joe Manchin advised President Biden that using the budget reconciliation process for the American Rescue Plan was a misuse of the "nuclear option" and contradicted his campaign promises.
Joe Manchin believes the Democratic leadership intended to pass four separate reconciliation bills during the 117th Congress (2021-2023), a strategy he refused to support.