Manchin on a mission

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

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Summary

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) says he will not support his party’s voting rights bill. The coronavirus pandemic’s devastating impact on Latin America’s middle class. And, the White House partners with dating apps to promote vaccinations.

Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has broken from his party once again to reject a broad voting rights bill. Congressional reporter Mike DeBonis has more on what this means for the rest of the Democrats’ priorities.

In Latin America, a previously burgeoning middle class has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Anthony Faiola reports from Columbia on the disproportionate impact that rising poverty and inequality have had on Afro Latinos.

And, a group of dating sites has teamed up with the White House on an initiative to allow users to indicate whether they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus. Marisa Iati reports.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:07.0	Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu O'Rourer-Nipo with the Washington Post.
0:11.0	Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me the post.
0:13.0	This is Peter J. Listen from the Washington Post.
0:15.0	This is Post Reports. I'm Alexis D.R.
0:18.0	It's Monday, June 7th.
0:22.0	Today, the future of voting rights.
0:27.0	Columbia's shrinking middle class and swiping right on vaccines.
0:34.0	Joe Manchin, Democratic Senator from West Virginia,
0:39.0	published an op-ed in his hometown newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia.
0:45.0	And he announced that he was going to oppose the For the People Act,
0:51.0	which is the Democratic Party's marquee voting rights legislation.
0:55.0	He also went on Sunday shows, CBS's Face the Nation,
0:58.0	and talked about that this problem with the bill
1:01.0	wasn't anything in the legislation itself.
1:04.0	That it just wasn't bipartisan enough.
1:06.0	There weren't any Republicans supporting it, so he had to oppose it.
1:09.0	And I've always been about bipartisan ship.
1:12.0	I've always tried to work in a bipartisan way.
1:14.0	And I voted in a bipartisan way in the last ten years of the Senate.
1:18.0	So I'm doing what I have always done.
1:20.0	He's not objected specifically to anything in the bill.
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