It’s bad enough that Sen. Joe Manchin went on Fox News on Sunday and announced he was committed to tanking President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. But a report from HuffPost on part of his private reasoning makes it even worse. Even as he postures about the cost of the bill in public—an issue that didn’t seem to bother him when voting for a one-year, $768 billion defense spending bill—Manchin “has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senator’s comments,” Tara Golshan and Arthur Delaney report. Read more