Stonewall Manchin - a podcast by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Over the first five months of Biden's presidency, with the Democrats holding the slimmest possible majority in the Senate, President Biden has consistently run into the resistance of one man: Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Biden's policy agenda requires cooperation from every Democrat in the Senate, but Manchin, a moderate who values bipartisanship above almost all else, has broken with the president on staff appointments, raising the corporate tax rate, and eliminating the filibuster, and he has forced the Democrats to change legislation on COVID-relief and election reform.Evan Osnosjoins Dorothy Wickenden to discussManchin's emergence as the most powerful man in the Senate, and how Biden is attempting to get him on board. 

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