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Manchin ‘halts’ $2T vote

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to miss his self-imposed deadline to hold a vote on President Biden’s multitrilliondollar social-spending bill by the end of this year as a key member of his own party, Sen. Joe Manchin, remains a stumbling block.

While Biden himself and other top Democrats have insisted the massive Build Back Better Act can clear Congress before Christmas, NBC News reported that Schumer (D-NY) is likely to hold off on bringing the measure to the floor until 2022.

Meanwhile, the president’s efforts to get Manchin on board with the roughly $2 trillion measure have hit a wall over the West Virginia senator’s opposition to including an expanded child tax credit.

A Democratic source told The Post Wednesday that the discussions between the two “have been going very poorly. They are far apart.”

After months of being the focus of media speculation about what it would take for him to support the bill, the pressure appeared to get to Manchin Wednesday as he lashed out at a group of reporters pursuing him on Capitol Hill.

“I’m not negotiating with any of you, OK?” the exasperated senator said. “You guys, let me go. This is bulls--t. You are bulls--t! OK? I’m done! I’m done! God Almighty.”

Manchin’s opposition isn’t the only obstacle to getting the bill to the floor. NBC News reported Wednesday that Democratic negotiators have yet to reach an agreement on other sticking points, including how much people in hightax locations can deduct from state and local taxes. Senate Democrats are attempting to pass the bill

through reconciliation, which means all 50 members of their conference must be on board.

In place of the Build Back Better Act, Senate Democrats will reportedly make a year-end push for a federal voting-reform measure that promises to override election laws enacted in Republican-led states like Georgia and Texas. Those laws have regulated early voting hours and restricted mail-in voting.

Still, passage of the bill is contingent on senators like Manchin reaching an agreement on changing the chamber’s rules, and Manchin indicated Tuesday he would not do so without buy-in from Republicans.

“In terms of time priorities, obviously voting rights has got to be dealt with immediately,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the driving force behind the Build Back Better Act, told reporters Wednesday.

“I would like to see Build Back Better dealt with as quickly as possible but if we can’t deal with it right now, it’s far more important that we deal with the voting rights issue.”