Manchin: Biden Academia bailout "excessive"

“I just thought that it was excessive. I just respectfully disagree on that,” Manchin told reporters.

“I think there’s other ways. When people were calling me from back in West Virginia, I would give them all the options they had that would reduce their loan by going to work in the federal government,” he added. …

“I just thought there was a better way to do it. You have to earn it. You have to earn it,” he said.