Joe Manchin Gets Thousands From GOP Megadonor After Tanking President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act
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Joe Manchin Gets Thousands From GOP Megadonor After Tanking President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act |
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Donors like billionaire investor Ken Langone, said one critic, are "always there to reach across the aisle to make sure to support politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich." |
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Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams |
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2022-01-29 |
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2022-01-29 |
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Dr. Victoria A. Stuart, Ph.D. |
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After he announced in 2021-12 he would not be supporting President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, Senator Joe Manchin's political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone. |
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Joe Manchin |
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"We deserve better than career politicians auctioning off the policies that affect our lives to the highest bidder." -- Melanie D'Arrigo |
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- Alex Gibney | Americans for Prosperity | Americans for Prosperity Action | Build Back Better Act | Charles Koch | Clean Electricity Performance Program | CNBC | Common Dreams | Country Roads PAC | Democratic | Democrats | Elaine Langone | GOP | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Langone | I Love Capitalism | Joe Manchin | Joseph Manchin III | Kenneth Gerard Langone Sr. | Koch Family Foundations | New York | Philip Alexander Gibney | President Joe Biden | Republican | Senate Leadership Fund | The Hill | West Virginia
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- billionaire | child care | Child Tax Credit | documentary filmmaker | electric sector | families | GOP donors | lawmaker | megadonor | political action committee | political donations | right-wing | Senator | Super PAC | zero emissions
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- dashing plans to put the U.S. electric sector on a path to zero emissions
- Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
- free college tuition
- Ken Langone opposes free college tuition
- Ken Langone opposes single-payer healthcare
- Ken Langone praised Joe Manchin's "guts and courage"
- Ken Langone wrote about his objection to popular policies pushed by progressive lawmakers
- Ken Langone's donation to Joe Manchin
- Langone's wife contributed $5\,000 to the Country Roads PAC
- Manchin refused to support an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit
- Manchin refused to support paid family leave
- politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich
- received the maximum allowable contribution
- rising grocery bills
- single-payer healthcare
- stalling negotiations over the package [
- supported former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign
- We deserve better than career politicians auctioning off the policies that affect our lives to the highest bidder
- wealthy investor [Ken Langone]
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- Nature - Earth - Geopolitical - Countries - United States - Politics - Persons - Joe Manchin
- Nature - Earth - Geopolitical - Countries - United States - Politics - Political parties - Democratic Party
- Society - Issues - Inequality - Economic inequality - Wealth inequality - Extreme wealth - Billionaires - Persons - Ken Langone
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After he announced in 2021-12 he would not be supporting President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, Senator Joe Manchin's political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone.
The Hill reported late Friday [2022-01-28] that the wealthy investor [Ken Langone], who supported former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign [Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, gave $5,000 to Joe Manchin's Country Roads PAC less than two weeks after the right-wing Democratic senator from West Virginia said he would not join his party in supporting the president's agenda.
Langone's wife, Elaine Langone, also contributed $5,000 to the Country Roads PAC, while other political donations the megadonor made around the same time went to the Koch family-backed Americans for Prosperity Action and the Senate Leadership Fund, a GOP Super PAC. [Charles Koch | Koch Family Foundations]
As Common Dreams reported in 2021-11, Ken Langone praised Joe Manchin's "guts and courage" for standing in the way of the Build Back Better Act's passage and promised to hold "one of the biggest fundraisers" he's ever hosted to support the senator.
Joe Manchin in recent months demanded that the Democrats remove the Clean Electricity Performance Program from the Build Back Better Act, dashing plans to put the U.S. "electric sector on a path to zero emissions," as one lawmaker said. Manchin also refused to support paid family leave and an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit, which has helped tens of millions of families afford rising grocery bills, child care, and other essentials, before ultimately stalling negotiations over the package [Build Back Better Act] in 2021-12.
"We deserve better than career politicians auctioning off the policies that affect our lives to the highest bidder," tweeted New York congressional candidate Melanie D'Arrigo this week [2022-01] after CNBC first reported Ken Langone's donation to Joe Manchin.
In a 2018 book titled I Love Capitalism, Ken Langone wrote about his objection to popular policies pushed by progressive lawmakers including "free college tuition" and "single-payer healthcare."
GOP donors like Ken Langone, tweeted documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, are "always there to reach across the aisle to make sure to support politicians who take from the poor and give to the rich."
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