Were All Just Living Under the Tyranny of Joe Manchin w/ Andy Slavitt, Rep. Ritchie Torres & Jason Kander

Published: June 11, 2021, 5:04 a.m.

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\\u201cEverything\\u2019s a question mark, because we no longer live in a democracy. We live under the tyranny of Joe Manchin,\\u201d says Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) of the current state of Congress. The congressman, who represents \\u201cAmerica\\u2019s most impoverished district,\\u201d New York\\u2019s 15th, joins Molly Jong-Fast on the latest episode of The New Abnormal to talk about why making President Biden\\u2019s child tax credit permanent could be his administration\\u2019s greatest legacy. But it all rests in the hands of a single\\u2014tyrannical\\u2014senator. Also on the show, Andy Slavitt, Biden\\u2019s outgoing coronavirus adviser and author of the new book Preventable, says it would be \\u201chealthy for us to try to hold to account not just the president, but ourselves, each other\\u201d after 600,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Former Missouri secretary of state and Majority 54 podcast host Jason Kander also goes in-depth with Molly\\u2014who asks how Democrats can possibly take back red states \\u201cif we can\\u2019t get people like you to run? No pressure.\\u201d Tune in for his response and what we can learn from Georgia.





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