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Senator Joe Manchin Proposes Blocking Funding for 2026 World Cup over Equal Pay

The United States women's soccer team concluded a perfect World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands in the final on Sunday.

The USA's fourth World Cup victory since 1991 has only increased pleas for the women's team to receive the same pay as the men's side.

Sen. Joe Manchin is one of many voices promoting that cause, and per Jennifer Bendery of the Huffington Post, the Democrat from West Virginia has introduced a bill to Congress in which the federal government would not provide any money for the 2026 men's World Cup, which will be jointly hosted by the U.