Claim To Fame: senior Senator from West Virginia
Why He's The Person of the Week: for bucking party leadership and voting 'Yes' on both the GOP and Democrat proposals to end shutdown. Showing a willingness to do 'whatever it takes' to end the shutdown, Manchin became the only Democrat to vote for a Republican Senate funding proposal.
The Republican proposal would end the 34-day shutdown with $5.7 billion for President Trump's border wall and revamp immigration laws, while the Democrats’ solution would reopen agency doors for three weeks while bargainers seek a budget accord. And with President Trump ending the Shutdown a few days later, Manchin, who has always shown a willingness for bipartisanship since he became a Senator in 2010, now says that an "outside observer" is needed to facilitate negotiations between the administration and Congress.
"You need to bring in professionals," Manchin said on "Face the Nation." "There's a lack of trust and a lack of belief on both sides. No one believes that, basically, these figures are correct, or this or that's going to happen, or do we really need all 5.7 billion being spent on some kind of a secured structure?"
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