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 …

Centrist Democrats still have no idea what they want to cut from the $3.5 trillion budget bill

Searching for a way forward on his legacy bills, President Joe Biden held a meeting Wednesday at the White House with centrist and progressive Democrats from both chambers.  

It included progressive …

Democrats introduce tax proposal to start clawing taxes back from megacorporations

Democrats Sens. Ron Wyden (Oregon) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) have introduced a new tax on corporations that’s likely to be included in the reconciliation bill now being drafted in both the House …

Republicans double down on protecting wealthy tax cheats at the expense of nation's infrastructure

Senate Republicans are dead set on making sure that the rich people who they’ve been helping to avoid pay their taxes continue to have the privilege of cheating the rest of us. It would appear …

That 'bipartisan' infrastructure bill? It's really the 'ExxonMobil' infrastructure bill

Keith McCoy, a senior director of federal relations for ExxonMobil, thought he was being head-hunted for a potential major lobbying client. He ended up being an unwitting participant in a Greenpeace …

McConnell's delaying tactics on infrastructure wear thin with Democrats who aren't Manchin or Sinema

President Joe Biden is pursuing “multiple paths forward” on infrastructure, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday. That means a lot of congressional Democrats …

Patience wears thin among congressional Democrats as Biden's momentum stalls

The Senate comes back from Memorial Day recess on Monday (though nothing happens until Tuesday—nothing ever happens in the Senate on a Monday) to an ambitious agenda set by Majority Leader Chuck …

McConnell asks for 'a personal favor' and Republicans respond, filibustering Jan. 6 commission

After dragging things out as long as they could, pushing a planned vote from Thursday to Friday, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the …