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Julia Conley

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Gop megadonor gives manchin big bucks - What They Never Told You

Sen. Joe Manchin Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin's political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone.

The Hill reported late Friday that the wealthy investor, who supported former President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, gave $5,000 to Manchin's Country Roads PAC less than two weeks after the right-wing Democratic senator from West Virginia said he would not join his party in supporting the president's agenda.

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