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Even as Joe Manchin is indicating it will take a while for the Senate to pass the reconciliation package, budget committee chair Bernie Sanders is pushing for a vote as early as next week.

This process cannot go on week after week, month after month. It's finally got to come to an end," Sanders said, per CBS News.