Shadow President Joe Manchin continues to wreak havoc with the Democrats’ agenda in the Senate. As Ed already reported, Manchin was all set to support an amendment in the continuing resolution this week that would have defunded Biden’s large employer vaccine mandate.

In the end, though, that effort didn’t pan out and Manchin wound up voting against the amendment, so the CR passed. But now King Joseph is looking for a second bite at the apple. Rather than simply defunding the mandate for employers with more than 100 workers, he has co-sponsored a bill that would cancel the mandate entirely.

All of the Republicans in the Senate are supporting a measure based on the Congressional Review Act that would put an end to the executive order, so with Manchin’s support, it will probably come up for a vote next week. But that doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen, of course. (The Hill)