The White House is taking a break from fighting with Manchin.
Manchin was accused of breaking his word with Biden by a statement from the White House.
"If his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a betrayal of his commitments to the President and the Senator's colleagues in the House and Senate," Psaki said in the statement.
Manchin personally handed Biden a framework that he could get behind.
They would keep pressing Manchin if he would backtrack again.
Manchin said in a Fox News interview that he was opposed to President Joe Biden's social spending bill.
He said in a Fox News interview that the legislation was a no. I have tried everything I know to do.
The White House said it was having productive discussions with Manchin. The negotiations with the conservative Democrat were not going well. A request for comment was not immediately responded to by Manchin's office.
The legislation would expand the American safety net. Universal pre-K, child tax credit payments for another year, federal subsidies for childcare, fighting the climate emergency, and more are all things it would do. Democrats wanted to impose new taxes on rich Americans and corporations that pay little or no federal tax.
The administration's view of what Manchin's continued opposition to the legislation would mean for Americans was pointed out by Psaki in her statement.
"Senator Manchin will have to explain to those families that they need to keep paying for a drug that they don't need, instead of a drug that they do." He will have to explain to the nearly two million women who would get the affordable day care they need to return to work why he doesn't like the plan to get them the help they need.
"Maybe Senator Manchin can explain to the millions of children who have been lifted out of poverty, in part due to the Child Tax Credit, why he wants to end a program that is helping achieve this milestone."
The White House was not the only one going after Manchin. Progressives were angry at Manchin for derailing legislation that contained their priorities.
"He's going to have a lot of explaining to do to the people of West Virginia," said Sen.
Manchin was criticized by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Progressives had put their hopes in Biden to deliver his support for the party-line bill after they loosened their blockade on the bipartisan infrastructure law. They wanted it to pass with the social spending and climate bill.
She wrote that a few of them in the House warned that if Dem leaders gave Manchin everything he wanted first, this would happen. Maybe they'll believe us next time. Maybe people will keep calling us nave.
