Very interesting

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he's supportive of going forward with a larger, Democratic-only infrastructure bill but that it shouldn't be linked to a separate bipartisan framework.

Manchin, during an interview with MSNBC, said that he had been assuming since "day one" that Democrats would have to use reconciliation, a budget process that allows them to bypass a 60-vote legislative filibuster, to pass a larger infrastructure bill because Republicans don't want to make changes to the 2017 tax bill.

“We're going to have to work it through reconciliation, which I’ve agreed that that can be done. I just haven’t agreed on the amount, because I haven’t seen everything that everyone is wanting to put in the bill," Manchin said on MSNBC.

  The Hill

Is this a new tune for Manchin?

Democrats are still in the early stages of trying to figure out how big to go in a Democratic-only infrastructure bill. But they have no room for error in the Senate, where they need all 50 of their members and Vice President Harris to pass an infrastructure bill under reconciliation.

And Manchin has long been viewed as the biggest hold out on greenlighting a Democratic-only bill.

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The bipartisan plan was thrown into limbo late last week after President Biden suggested he wouldn't sign the agreement if it didn't come to his desk with the larger Democratic-only bill. Biden walked back that statement over the weekend, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has warned that the House won't take up the Senate bipartisan deal until they also pass the Democratic-only bill. Manchin, during the MSNBC interview on Tuesday, argued that the two bills shouldn't be linked, urging that Democrats should "take the win" on the bipartisan agreement.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.