Will Joe Manchin Give Trial Lawyers Billions of Dollars to Sue West Virginia Small Businesses?

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 30, 2021. Win McNamee/Getty Images

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Negotiations reportedly aren’t going well between the Biden administration and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), the swing Democrat in the 50–50 U.S. Senate who will likely decide the fate of the president’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation, which has been calculated to cost $5 trillion.