Two people — Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — are standing in the way of history.

If Manchin and Sinema continue to block progress on President Biden’s landmark Build Back Better package of critical investments in America’s future, here’s just some of what could go wrong:

• Everyday Americans *will not* get relief from impossible child care and college expenses, runaway health care costs, unaffordable housing, and Big Pharma’s immoral price-gouging.

• We *will not* make the wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations pay their fair share OR reverse the unfair and unsustainable tax cuts that Donald Trump and congressional Republicans rammed through for their billionaire and Big Business puppet masters.

• We *will not* do what must be done to prevent catastrophic climate change OR create the tens of millions of good-paying jobs that would come with a transition to clean energy.

• Voters *will not* feel that government works for them — making some drop out and making others more receptive to conspiracist and fascistic forces.

But Manchin is holding progress hostage to misguided ideas about limiting government programs only to the “needy” — a counterproductive approach that pits have-a-littles against have-nots.

And Sinema is jaunting off to Europe for lavish fundraisers with rich expats.

Neither is serving the real interests of their constituents, their party, or the American people.

And we have to tell them so — over and over, if need be.

Tell Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema:

Please stop. Your continued insistence on watering down the Build Back Better package is hurting our country. The American people — in West Virginia and Arizona, as well as everywhere else — need and deserve the bold action that President Biden and every other member of the Senate’s Democratic Caucus are trying to deliver. Join your colleagues and support the full, overwhelmingly popular Build Back Better plan with no further delays.

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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
 
 
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