Manchin says Democrats should pay for infrastructure, raise corporate taxes

The Hill

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

March 24, 2021 Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a key centrist, says Democrats should pay for a planned $3 trillion infrastructure package and look at repealing parts of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to pay for it. Manchin says he could support a package as large as $3 trillion, the price tag on the proposal being floated by the White House, as long as it doesn’t add substantially to the federal deficit. “As long as it’s paid for. We need — this country needs to rebuild itself. We need to rebuild ourselves, and it has to be infrastructure,” he told reporters Tuesday.

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