Democrats are reportedly aiming to include four weeks of paid family leave in their massive social safety net package.
program, Manchin objected to his Democratic colleagues putting paid family leave back in the $1.75 trillion social safety net package.
Manchin said he believed the policy could garner bipartisan support if it's done outside the party's reconciliation process, which"Let's get it done in regular order through the process," the West Virginia Democrat said."It'll last. It'll be forever." Senator Joe Manchin said Thursday he doesn't think paid family leave belongs in the Democrats' social spending bill. In this photo, Manchin arrives for a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on November 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C.announced that paid family and medical leave is making its way back into the sweeping social safety net and climate change bill.
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