Dems tried watering down paid leave to get Manchin on board. He forced them to toss the popular measure from the social spending package entirely.
"We kept hearing, 'You have a Manchin problem,'" Molly Day, executive director of Paid Leave for the U.S., said."So we kept digging in."
Though polls show paid family leave has strong support among Democrats and Republicans, and many business groups have warmed to the idea, even it couldn't make the cut as Democratic leaders scrambled to lower the spending bill's cost at Manchin's insistence. The other moderate they have had to appease, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema , wasn't opposed to including paid leave.
In January, advocates stood up a West Virginia coalition to take grassroots action in the senator's home state. In June, the effort kicked into higher gear: Paid leave supporters launched cable and digital ad buys in the state and made arrangements for small business leaders who support the benefit to meet with Manchin’s legislative staff.
Manchin shared his concerns about how a paid leave program would impact small businesses, she said, and how “we just can’t be spending so much money." Day shared her personal experience watching two parents cope with cancer without paid leave, which she said he was "compelled by." As recently as last week, advocates were in talks with lawmakers and administration officials about efforts to scale down the package — efforts that the White House told them they needed to get on board with, a source said, or else risk the provisions getting dropped from the deal.
Paid leave had big muscle behind it on the Hill: House Ways and Means Chair Richard Neal had declared paid leave his No. 1 priority, and was making his case to Senate leadership and the White House — with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s support — every chance he got, a source familiar with the conversations on the Hill said.
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