Biden open to breaking up controversial voting bill after Manchin opposes passing on 'partisan basis:' Psaki

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday morning that President Biden is open to dividing Democrats' controversial election bill into multiple parts after Sen. Joe Manchin last week said he didn't think Congress should pass the entire thing at once.

After the hearing, Manchin, D-W.Va., released a statement saying that he supports some of the bill but that Congress would risk decreasing Americans' trust in elections by passing H.R. 1 or S.1 along party lines. Manchin is the only Democrat in the Senate that is not a co-sponsor of S.1.  "America's declining trust in the government and each other makes it harder to solve key problems," Manchin said. "That trust will continue to diminish unless we, as members of Congress, transcend partisanship to strengthen our democracy by protecting voting rights, implementing commonsense election security reforms, and making our campaign finance system more transparent."