Manchin: No Health Reforms Without Tax Hikes; Tax Talks Underway

Key Build Back Better holdout Sen. Joe Manchin said Democrats’ health care priorities are contingent on tax hikes, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) began talking to the West Virginia Democrat on Tuesday (April 26) about using a skinnier version of the budget reconciliation plan to undo Trump-era tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. Democrats can use budget reconciliation to go it alone on health care priorities and government drug price controls, but every Democrat must vote yes,...