Moderate Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has been a reasoned voice on government spending and taxation, but he made headlines this week by backing the potential $1 trillion tax increase of a reworked Build Back Better plan.

Americans for Tax Reform noted the heel turn by Manchin, if not hypocrisy.

“I don’t think during a time of recession you mess with any of the taxes,” Manchin said in a video montage from his past remarks during a nationally televised Senate debate Oct. 18, 2010.