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Tapper Confronts Manchin: 'Why Were You Fighting for Less Help' During 'Cruel Economic Time'?

‘WHO DO YOU BLAME?’

“So after changes that you pushed for, enhanced federal unemployment benefits now expire about a month earlier and there’s a new income cap for writing them off on your taxes.”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper relentlessly grilled Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Sunday morning over the conservative Democrat’s push to water down the recently passed coronavirus relief bill, wondering aloud why the West Virginia lawmaker fought so hard for “less help” during this “cruel economic time.”

Prior to Saturday’s passage of the...

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