The Zoom participant log included a dial-in from Tudor Investment Corporation, the hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones.
The filibuster is a critical priority for the donors on the call, as it bottles up progressive legislation that would hit their bottom lines.
When it came to Sen. Roy Blunt, a moderate Missouri Republican who voted no on the commission, Manchin offered a creative solution.
“Roy Blunt is a great, just a good friend of mine, a great guy,” Manchin said.
Manchin told the donors he hoped to make another run at it to prove that comity is not lost.
Manchin acknowledged that publicly he had drawn a line at 60, but said that he was open to other ideas.
It would be illegal for an individual donor to give a $50,000 check, though the money could theoretically be bundled from multiple donors. »