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Rep. Bowman on the progressive response to Manchin's Build Back Better backtrack

PBS, 23 Dec 2021
In the three days since Sen. Joe Manchin threw up a massive roadblock on the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better agenda, Democrats have begun the scramble to salvage the bill or at least its key priorities. For progressives, the breakdown was what they feared all along. Yamiche Alcindor talks to New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman about progressives' frustrations.

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