Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xt and Show Podcast.

Welcome back in Thursday edition major breaking news on this edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks

Xt and Show. We are reacting to it with you in real time. In the last hour, Joe Manchin

addressed a huge scrum of media outside of the United States Capitol and effectively

submarined the $3.5 trillion Bernie and Biden budget saying he will support no more than 1.5 trillion

of that cost. Meaning he locked off by himself $2 trillion from the proposed budget. Why is this

significant? We're going to walk you through it here. But let's first play a clip of Joe Manchin

saying the reason why his vote matter so much is there's only 50 senators and 50 votes for this

reconciliation budget. And so if he's not getting what he believes should be in that bill,

then he's not going to support it. Here is Manchin saying that.

We only have 50 votes. Basically take whatever we don't aren't able to come to agreement with today

and take that to the campaign trail next year. And I'm sure that you'll get many more liberal

progressive Democrats with what they say they want. Okay, so that is Joe Manchin just moments

ago in the last hour outside of the Capitol. Let's kind of set this in context, Buck. Right now,

there is an infrastructure bill that the expectations were it would come before the House

on Monday. They have pushed that now to today. The last I have heard is that they are expecting

to bring that bill to the floor of the House. It has already passed the Senate with bipartisan

support. Now the challenge is the liberal elements, the most liberal elements of the Democratic

Party have said they don't want to vote for these bills separately because their concern is.

And I think it's probably a valid one based on what you just heard Joe Manchin say.

As soon as the infrastructure bill passes, there will not then be a 3.5 trillion or maybe even a

1.5 trillion dollar bill that they can follow and they can pursue. So we'll see whether or not that

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