Sen. Joe Manchin told colleagues he believed parents would use child tax credits to BUY DRUGS

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Sen. Joe Manchin told colleagues he believed parents would use child tax credits to buy drugs and people would abuse paid leave to go hunting
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Sen. Joe Manchin privately told his Senate colleagues that he believed Americans would abuse government benefits, like the extended child tax credit and paid leave, in President Joe Biden's sweeping $2 trillion spending package, HuffPost reported.

Specifically, Manchin said parents would use child-tax-credit money to buy drugs and workers would abuse the paid-family-leave program in the legislation to get out of work and go on hunting trips, unnamed people familiar with his remarks told HuffPost.

A person familiar with the situation told Insider Manchin privately expressed concern about grandparents taking care of children whose parents struggle with addiction. He said he worried about the caretakers not being able to qualify for the child-tax-credit money themselves. The West Virginia Democrat advocated for a way to ensure the federal aid flowed to them instead.

On Monday, he publicly reiterated his worry about grandparents being unable to access the payments on "Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval," a West Virginia radio program.


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