Because while Manchin favored it, he didn’t have 59 or more colleagues who agreed at the same time the House had a majority that agreed.
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Get a better parliamentarian and you only need 49 colleagues, who existed. That's what the Democrats didn't try persuasing him to agree to, instead focusing on the BBB-turned-IRA, which he didn't even want to do.
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