LETTER: Manchin slows down the Build Back Better bill

The Monday Associated Press nonfiction astir Joe Manchin and the Build Back Better measure was precise good written. But property caput Jen Psaki seems to person a precise basal misunderstanding of the roles of the 3 branches of the U.S. government.

She states that Sen. Manchin’s determination is “a breach of his commitments” to President Joe Biden by refusing to endorse the BBB bill.

There are 3 supposedly autarkic branches of the authorities committed to checks and balances connected each other, not to subservient enactment of 1 to the other. Ms. Psaki appears to deliberation otherwise, that the Senate is subservient to the enforcement branch, not autarkic and adjacent to it. Due to this misunderstanding of the Constitution, she needs a acquisition successful basal civics.

Sen. Manchin is not independently holding up the measure up. He has simply made the 50 Republican votes against the measure into a majority, not a necktie ended by the vice president. Party subservience is surely successful play successful the House and Senate, but Sen. Manchin is wholly guiltless of this. He simply wants and needs to recognize amended the semipermanent consequences and costs of the costly bill, arsenic each the legislators should.

Our state needs much Joe Manchins and less legislators who are, successful fact, successful lockstep with the enforcement branch.