Manchin Threatens To Derail Democratic Stimulus Pkg Including $2k Disbursement To Recipients

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) warned his party on Tuesday against pursuing a Democratic-only coronavirus relief bill, vowing that Republicans would have input as lawmakers write the legislation.

"I have made it very clear ... we're going to make this work in a bipartisan way. My friends on the other side are going to have input. And we're going to do something that we agree on. I'm not just going to do it just down the lines of, just saying party line vote," Manchin told Fox News' Bret Baier, asked if he would vote for a Democratic-only $1.9 trillion bill.

Manchin added that the final coronavirus bill needs to "make sense," and warned that senators had spent too long trying to make coronavirus relief bipartisan to go-it-alone now. Each of the previous five coronavirus bills have passed along bipartisan lines.

"If it's out of the realm that makes sense and what we've worked on together, we've built too much trust up among each other to allow this to fall apart. So they can count on me to make sure that we do everything to make this bipartisan," Manchin said.

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