Democrat West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has offered an olive branch to his party after torpedoing the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan.

Never forget that Manchin is a Democrat and as a Democrat the tax cuts that former President Donald Trump created are against everything he stands for.

That is likely why, in an effort to save his reputation with his own party, he has offered to be on board with axing those tax cuts, The Washington Examiner reported.

The West Virginia Democrat has told colleagues the divide over Mr. Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act should not be seen as intransigence toward big policy changes. Rather, the package’s defeat presents an opportunity for Democrats to reorient their agenda to a few key priorities.

One such priority, according to Mr. Manchin, should be the repeal of former President Trump’s signature tax cuts. Democrats have long lambasted the corporate and income tax cuts as a “giveaway to the rich.”

“The only reason I even voted to [advance the Build Back Better Act] was to fix the tax [system] so that everybody paid their fair share,” he said. “The ultra-wealthy, the corporations that weren’t paying anything, everyone should pay their fair share.”

“If you’re going to negotiate, then negotiate,” the senator said. “Don’t start picking and choosing and playing games.”

Manchin was attacked by many of his fellow Democrats when he torpedoed the Build Back Better agenda.

“Let’s be clear: Manchin’s excuse is bulls**t. The people of West Virginia would directly benefit from childcare, pre-Medicare expansion, and long term care, just like Minnesotans,” far-left Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted.

“This is exactly what we warned would happen if we separated Build Back Better from infrastructure,” she added, in reference to the ‘bipartisan’ infrastructure measure that was rescued by a handful of Republicans and in which leftists warned should have come after the ‘BBB’ votes.

Let’s be clear: Manchin’s excuse is bullshit. The people of West Virginia would directly benefit from childcare, pre-Medicare expansion, and long term care, just like Minnesotans.

She later appeared on MSNBC — where else? — to say essentially the same thing.

“We all knew that Senator Manchin couldn’t be trusted. The excuses that he just made, I think, are complete bulls**t,” she said.

Another progressive, Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, added: “He has continued to move the goalposts, he has never negotiated in good faith and he is obstructing the president’s agenda, 85 percent of which is still left on the table. And in obstructing the president’s agenda, he is obstructing the people’s agenda.”

Indeed, a recent NPR/Marist poll found that only a 41 percent plurality of voters actually support the legislation.

“Manchin is Manchin. But what kind of healthy democracy is structured in a way that can allow one man elected by 290,000 voters in one of the least populous states to thwart the agenda of his party and the President who was elected with 81 million votes. We need structural change,” tweeted Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Council.

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And he did not do himself any favors with his party when he said he would join Republicans in opposing Biden’s vaccine mandates.