Thursday’s scheduled House vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate with the help of 19 Republicans was already looking precarious, and on Wednesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) didn’t do Speaker Nancy Pelosi any favors on that front. Throughout the summer, Pelosi pledged that before the House takes up any action on a bipartisan bill, the Senate would have to also pass a larger bill containing President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda that would cost $3.5 trillion over 10 years.

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