U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Katherine Clark say they’re not backing down after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin blew up the $2 trillion Build Back Better Act over the weekend.
The Democratic congresswomen, in Cambridge on Monday touting the importance of Child Tax Credit payments in the legislation, stressed that they’re not giving up despite the key swing vote in the Senate saying he cannot support the “mammoth” bill.
“I’m not ready to concede defeat on anything here,” Pressley said about the legislation after touring the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee to highlight federal funding that has helped reduce food insecurity.
“I’m going to continue to keep the pressure up,” she said, later adding, “I do not have the luxury of growing weary, cynical or apathetic. I have to keep fighting until the very end.”
Clark, as assistant speaker, and others in the House of Representatives have spent months negotiating the Build Back Better Act, she said.
A “huge” percentage of the bill is already agreed to, Clark added.
“We do not accept no,” she said. “No means that we are turning our back on the American people, the American children. It means we’re turning our back on the planet, and it means that we are turning our back on rebuilding this economy.”
“This is what we have to do, so I do not accept a phrase on a Sunday talk show as the closing down of what we need to do to support our country, our democracy and our economy at this time,” Clark later added.
In March, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, which increased the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 per child to $3,000 per child for children over 6 years old — and from $2,000 to $3,600 for children under 6. The last payment under the American Rescue Plan was sent to families last week.
The Build Back Better Act would extend the enhanced Child Tax Credit into 2022.
“These payments, they’ve been game changers,” Pressley said. “Failure is not an option … Millions of children will slip back into child poverty if we don’t act in this moment.”
Manchin when announcing his opposition to the $2 trillion bill called it a “mammoth piece of legislation.”
Pressley agreed that it is “mammoth…to meet the mammoth hurt that our families are experiencing.”
Manchin also said he can’t support the bill because of inflation.
“The best way to combat inflation is to get this pandemic under control, which is why we need the investments of the Build Back Better Act, so we have to pass this bill,” Pressley said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a letter to colleagues on Monday said the Senate will consider the Build Back Better Act “very early in the new year.”
Schumer wrote, “We are going to vote on a revised version of the House-passed Build Back Better Act — and we will keep voting on it until we get something done.”
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“‘We Do Not Accept No’”,,,,,,,so either buy our socialist fire insurance or we will burn down your House. Their boldface lies are as bald as their heads and ugly as their faces. Their Mammoth BBB bill is as extinct as the Mammoths with real building as diminutive as their socialist ideology is workable. Unlike Pressley and her BBB, at least the extinct Mammoths had hair. Her bill just gives the taxpayer a good clipping. Instead of insisting on building back better, try building back a better bill.,,,,one that includes 100% building and Zero social engineering.
MORE proof, dems have NO DESIRE TO EVER Compromise.. ITS ALWAYS GOTTA BE their way. Period!
Does anyone other than me think they believe they are privileged? And they’re not even white! This looks an awful lot like cultural appropriation, doesn’t it?
OF course they think they are privileged.. THEY THINK they are the modern era kings, queens and lords, and WE are their serfs..
You accept “No” if “No” is what you get. Understand how the voting process works and get over it.
thay doa nee no stinkin’ vote process… These demons are communist occupiers… they are NOT governed by the Constitution or American law.
U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Katherine Clark and their “Build Back Better Communist Plan. That says it all. Hey Ayanna and Katherine, go directly to North Korea, do not pass go, do not collect two hundred dollars.
AND hand in your US Citizenship, when you leave!
The best way to sescribe Pressley, the Squad and many in the Democrat Party is political thugs, enforcers who think they can make a deal others can’t refuse except one did. They are not representatives of their constiuants but use their position to advance an agenda that isn’t healthy for the nation as a whole. Socialism and top down authority fails because it is not a movement of the people as a whole but an elite grup who feel they have all the answers, which they don’t. These people become tiresome with their diatribes.
This is what happens when people are elected to positions above their intelligence level. An extra large cranium in no way indicates the brain size.
you mean…fraudulently elected.
ANY Politicial position, is ‘above’ their level of intelligence!
Ever notice how “democracy” is always “in peril” when Democrats don’t get their way?
That’s because, DEMOCRACY, means “OUR WAY ONLY< OR ELSE!"
How any voters can be so ignorant & brain-washed that they would elect incompetent radical socialists like Pressley & Clark is beyond all rational comprehension!! Absolutely unbelievable how many totally irresponsible & woefully unqualified persons are currently occupying positions in the U.S. Congress!!!
THOSE who vote for these cretins, are JUST AS DEMONIC and traitorous as they are..
Once they lose the house and the senate next November, maybe “no” will actually mean “no”.
Kids won’t “slip back into poverty” while their parents ( oh, that’s right, baby daddy not there) have EIGHTY PLUS programs of welfare we pay for to depend on.Every one of these leeches who decided all by themselves to make babies need to be removed from the welfare rolls. If they fail to take care of their kids the freely chose to me than they should have those kids removed from their custody for neglect. They can work two and three jobs the way we have done to pay for the babies they made. I’m sick to death of blacks thinking that everyone else is supposed to feed, clothes, house, educate, Totally support the babies they choose all by themselves to make. Welfare is evil and until it is eradicated votes will be bought with it and working people will have their wages re-distributed forcefully to pay the way of others. There are churches and charities that receive tax breaks and donations in the billions of dollars to help the needy and they should be doing their job. Taxpayers are not anyone’s baby daddy.
AND IF You want to stay on welfare, THEN YOU NO longer should get to VOTE WHO RUNS this nation!
We taxpayers should have said “NO” long ago to your forced theft of our paychecks to support other people AND MEANT IT! You haven’t heard “NO” nearly enough. Go to the churches and charities that receive tax breaks and billions in donations to help the needy and keep your hands out of my pockets!
President Trump had this economy rolling right along until his presidency was stolen from him. If you want to learn about fixing the economy you won’t do it by undoing everything President Trump did. You want to enslave Taxpayers even more than they already are. It’s disgusting and un-American! You all make me sick to my stomach.
Just looking at that ugly bald head is enough to make me want to puke all over her.