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On this edition of the Brett Bear podcast, I sit down for a one-on-one interview with West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin to discuss the debt crisis and how lawmakers from both sides of the aisle can come together to strike a deal on the debt limit.

All this and more on this episode of the Brett Baer podcast.

Joining us tonight, West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin.

Senator, welcome back.

Good to be with you, Brett.

You have an op-ed out in the Washington Post. Stop the political blame game, start cutting the debt.

You say, here are the facts. Our national debt was $14.1 trillion, February 2011. In the decade since,

we've added nearly another $20 trillion to that total with bipartisan enthusiasm.

That's over $94,000 for every American.

It sounds to me like you're saying Democrats should negotiate on this debt ceiling.

Well, we should be talking about it.

I mean, it's a time to recognize when you have a debt ceiling and you have to raise it.

We've accumulated a lot of debt and we have to pay our bills.

First of all, we know we're going to pass the debt ceiling. We're not going to default. So let's get that out of the way.

But in doing that, let's agree to take seriously the obligations we have. We're writing checks to kids.

Our children can't cash, Brett, and we go down, $94,000 per individual in America. It's unbelievable.

And with that, there's no end in sight. There's things that we could talk about that we could

agree on. And I knew that if Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden got in the room together, like-minded,

wanting to do something, that they'd have a good conversation. Let's see where that goes.

First of all, President Biden in 2011, he was a person who led to charge, you know, on the debt

restructuring. And for two years then, we had basically a reduction in our debt. Then it took back

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