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Manchin nixes Biden's $3.5T budget plan, urges $1.5T instead

by Hope Yen
| September 12, 2021 9:27 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — As congressional Democrats speed ahead this week in pursuit of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending, a Democratic senator vital to the bill’s fate says the cost will need to be slashed to $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion to win his support.

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