"We've done everything that we can to help people"

On Wednesday, Manchin sounded fed up with the concept of additional federal spending.

“We’re doing an awful lot,” the West Virginia Democrat told Insider. “We did an expansion of SNAP. We’ve done everything that we can to help people — we sent out $5.4 trillion in aid.”

He went on: “And there’s an awful lot of things we’ve done that’s been very good that will continue on into 2022.”