Axios with this, citing unnamed "people familiar with the matter".

  • Sen. Joe Manchin is privately saying he thinks Congress should take a "strategic pause" until 2022 before voting on President Biden's $3.5 trillion social-spending package

House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Schumer want a vote on the budget reconciliation package this month. Manchin's delay would halt this vote. It would also place at risk House passage of the separate $1.2 tln bipartisan infrastructure bill (Pelosi had laid out a timeline to have it passed by September 27).

Senators Manchin and Sinema are two Democrats (D-Ariz.) opposed to the scope and $ size of of the reconciliation package.

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