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Monday, January 31st, 2022

Manchin Got Huge Donation From GOP Megadonor After Tanking Build Back Better

Author:     Julia Conley
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     January 29, 2022
Link: Manchin Got Huge Donation From GOP Megadonor After Tanking Build Back Better
Stephan:   333 million Americans, men, women, and children, had their lives degraded because of this single corrupt man, and a single woman, Sinema from Arizona.
Sen. Joe Manchin on a phone call in a hallway just outside the Senate Chamber, after speaking on the floor of the Senate, on Capitol Hill on January 19, 2022, in Washington, D.C.
Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty

After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin’s political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone.

The Hill reported late Friday that the wealthy investor, who supported former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, gave $5,000 to 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 also contributed $5,000 to the 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.

As Common Dreams reported in November, Langone praised Manchin’s “guts and courage” for standing in the way of […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Monday, January 31, 2022 at 9:00 am

    We live in a Capitalist society. It should not surprise us that our politicians are for rent. This continues to teach the population that we have the best democracy that money can buy.