Progressives fight to keep Biden’s vision alive, Manchin gets big corporate reward for tanking it

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) made what, in retrospect, was a strategic error last Nov. 5. Their leader, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, in negotiations with Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair …

Build Back Better needs to get back on track

Riding high after his work helping Republicans dismantle democracy, Sen. Joe Manchin has imperiously declared that President Joe Biden is just going to have to start over in getting his support on the …

As House prepares to pass Build Back Better, making the tax provisions fairer is up to the Senate

The legal of the former guy just keep hanging over Capitol Hill like a huge cloud of toxic hot air. It’s not just the lingering fear from Jan. 6 and violent threats from Republicans, it’s the remnants …

House poised to pass Build Back Better, force Manchin to decide if he will stand alone against it

Build Back Better is on the House floor Thursday, and might even get a final vote before the day is done. This was supposed to be the day the House recessed for the Thanksgiving week off, with a 3 PM …

Biden, White House, want to make sure America knows who is responsible for fixing stuff

President Joe Biden is not, as of yet, calling out the Republicans who are taking credit for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) a large majority of them voted against. Not yet, but he’s …

Biden signs hard infrastructure bill, has to pivot to closing the deal on Build Back Better

President Joe Biden will officially ring in infrastructure week, for real, when he signs the infrastructure bill Monday afternoon. The $1.2 trillion package contains $550 billion in new spending on …

Manchin betrays colleagues who helped him with his latest Build Back Better demands

We’re now in the make nice to Sen. Joe Manchin phase of legislating President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan. At least, that’s the message House Democrats have been sent. The House is …

Republicans, and Manchin, work to poison the well for Biden's Build Back Better plan

Congress is out this week for the Veterans Day holiday, which means a week of posturing and trying to poison the well for next week’s push on President Joe Biden’s family and climate change Build Back …

House squad of conservative Democrats sabotaging Biden's agenda to the last moment

The House is ready to vote on President Joe Biden’s signature care economy and infrastructure proposals Friday. Maybe. While the first vote of the day (a Republican nuisance motion to adjourn) was …

House lawmakers work toward Build Back Better agreement, continuing to ignore Manchin

The House is still full-steam ahead on attempting to pass President Joe Biden’s hard and soft infrastructure programs this week, possibly, now that they’ve overcome the logjam that was Sen. Kyrsten …

Democrats’ strategy for Manchin: Plow ahead without him and dare him to kill Biden’s agenda

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is moving full steam ahead on getting the budget reconciliation bill that comprises President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan to the floor, despite the demands …

Even Third Way isn’t buying the conservative Democrats' take on the Virginia loss

There’s probably nothing more predictable in an election loss than this—conservative Democrats with a Politico reporter on speed-dial rushing to kneecap their progressive colleagues:

Interestingly …

Democrats settle on approach to Manchin, force him to vote yea or nay on Biden’s agenda

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to brush aside the effort by Sen. Joe Manchin to derail the reconciliation package Congress has been focused on for months and keep moving. She told …

Manchin blows up infrastructure week. Again

All that work Democrats have been doing all weekend long to get President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan onto the House floor? West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin just blew it all to smithereens, …

Democrats narrow in on Medicare drug price negotiation in Build Back Better plan

House and Senate Democrats worked through the weekend negotiating to get prescription drug pricing back into the big reconciliation bill for President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. That bill …

Manchin, Sinema still holding out on passing Biden’s big agenda, continuing stalemate

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted by the force of will Thursday to shake something loose and advance both the president’s Build Back Better agenda and the bipartisan …

Biden pressures House Democrats on infrastructure with no promises that Sinema, Manchin will help

The White House released its supposedly final “framework” for an agreement on President Joe Biden’s big climate and family economic plan Thursday, ahead of a morning meeting with House Democrats. …

Manchin moves goalposts on Biden's big agenda, again

President Joe Biden will be representing the U.S. at the global climate summit in Glasgow beginning Sunday, where he will have to explain to all the world leaders that while the majority of American …

White House, leadership narrowing in on agreement for scaled-back economic, climate plan

The complex moving parts of President Joe Biden’s ambitious, potentially transformative economic, family, and climate agenda continued to grind away through the weekend. Biden hosted Sen. Joe Manchin …

Democrats sounding bullish on getting something done soon on Biden's economic plan

Democrats on Capitol Hill are sounding bullish on coming to agreement by the end of the week on a possible framework for a reconciliation bill encompassing the shreds of President Joe Biden’s …