People like Midler are just scumbags. Like almost all of Hollyweird, she has no clue about government, politicss, negotiations, inflation or spending plans, etc. All she cares about is that the end justifies the means and she didn’t her way. So fuck it, just call the ‘bad guy’ (in this case Senator Manchin) ‘evil’ and diss his entire state of West Virginia (while just happens to be a red state that Trump won by 10+ points in 2020) as ‘poor’ and ‘illiterate’ regardless of the fact that with a 50/50 Senate, the last thing you should want to do is piss Manchin off. It’s what scumbags liek Midler do.