Biden 3.5 trillion plan stalled.

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is calling for a "pause" on the Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending bill, believing the total amount is just too hard of a sell to the American people and saying Senate Majority Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., will not have his vote at that amount. "He will not have my vote on 3.5 [trillion dollars]," Manchin told CNN's "State of the Union." "Chuck knows that. We've talked about this. "We already put out $5.4 trillion and tried to help Americans in every way we possibly can. A lot of the help we put out there is still there and is going to run until clear of next year 2022. "What's the urgency? What's the urgency we have? It's not the same urgency we had with the American Rescue Plan. We got that out the door quickly, about $2 trillion. On top of that, with the C.A.R.E.S package, leading up to that. "There's still an awful lot of people you need to help, but you have 11 million jobs that aren't filled right now. Something is not matching up. Don't you think we ought to hit the pause and find out?" Manchin told NBC's "Meet the Press" he is a "hard no" at $3.5 trillion and said he will not be the "lone vote" against it. "I've said if I can't go home and explain it, I'm not going to vote for it," Manchin told host Chuck Todd. Manchin's biggest sticking point on adding another $3.5 trillion in spending is the unspent money from the coronavirus relief packages from the past 18 months. "There's $60 billion that's not out the door yet," Manchin told CNN host Dana Bash. "Only thing I'm saying is why the urgency to spend another $300 billion toward that when you don't have $60 billion that went out? "Why are we not able to get into that, to make sure that the administration is able to disperse the money to get it to where it needs to help." The 1.2 trillion infrastructure bill was a bipartisan bill that was passed by both democrats and republicans but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) has attached it to the new 3.5 trillion human infrastructure bill. It is a 10,000 page plan that has not been fully read by members of congress and Pelosi is ramrodding it to be passed by Sept. 24th.