On 12/22/2021, President Biden on Wednesday touted the steps his administration took to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks ahead of the holiday season, saying the different actions taken helped to avert a Christmastime crisis, “The much-predicted crisis didn’t occur,” Biden said. “Packages are moving, gifts are being delivered, shelves are not empty.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki tried to claim that Democrats in Congress and in the White House had not bullied Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) in their efforts to gain his vote for President Joe Biden’s sweeping Build Back Better Act.

In answer to a question from Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, Psaki first said that she would not characterize the way that other Democrats treated Manchin as “bullying” and then pivoted to suggest that the West Virginia Senator was used to fighting hard battles and was not likely to wilt under pressure. “Is there going to be a softer, I guess, approach … in dealing with Sen. Manchin & some of the other … Democrats in the party who have been very vocal about being disappointed in him. Is there sort of a shift in strategy since this all blew up over bullying?” Heinrich asked.

“Well, again, I wouldn’t characterize it that way, Jacqui,” Psaki began. “But I would tell you that Senator Manchin is somebody who has won many tough-fought fights in West Virginia. He comes proudly from a coal-mining family, he’s a pretty outspoken advocate for the things he believes in and the things he doesn’t — and I would doubt he’s a withering flower on the side of the road, so …”

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Much-predicted crisis didn’t occur, shelves are not empty, withering flower on side of road