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Democrats struggle on how to move forward with Build Back Better

Senate Democrats returned to Washington on Tuesday with their domestic agenda in shambles and searching for a way to save face.

January 4, 2022

Manchin skeptical about blowing up filibuster to pass Biden’s partisan voting overhaul

Sen. Joe Manchin III on Tuesday said it would be a "heavy lift" for Democrats to gut the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold to ram through a rewrite of the nation's voting laws.

January 4, 2022

Schumer threatens to blow up Senate filibuster if GOP continues to block partisan voting overhaul

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer threatened Monday to gut the filibuster if Republicans don't back the White House's overhaul of the nation's voting laws.

January 3, 2022

Millennial talk show host plans Trump-style primary campaign against 40-year House Republican

Michael Crispi, a 28-year-old talk show host, plans a Trump-style primary campaign against one of the longest-serving House Republicans from New Jersey.

January 3, 2022

Senate GOP preps to nullify Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for 17 million health care workers

More than 30 GOP senators are preparing legislation to nullify President Biden's national COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers.

December 30, 2021

Dan Crenshaw demands Biden get FEMA to shore up COVID-19 test sites

Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Thursday demanded that the White House take a more active approach in directing the Federal Emergency Management Agency to bolster coronavirus testing sites.

December 30, 2021

Paris mandates mask wearing for outdoors as omicron cases rise

Authorities are reimposing an outdoor mask mandate in the City of Light as the omicron variant causes a rise in coronavirus cases throughout France.

December 30, 2021

Manchin’s stance on inflation questioned after pledge to gut Trump tax cuts

Sen. Joe Manchin III's eagerness to repeal the Trump-era tax cuts has conservatives questioning the West Virginia Democrat's claims that he's an inflation fighter.

December 29, 2021

Manchin offers to gut Trump tax cuts as atonement for killing Biden’s economic agenda

Sen. Joe Manchin III, under fire for killing President Biden's mammoth social welfare and climate change bill, is attempting to make peace with Democrats by promising to help them blow up the Trump-era tax cuts.

December 27, 2021

Oregon father facing threats for goading Biden into saying ‘Let’s go, Brandon’

The Oregon father who goaded President Biden into saying "Let's go, Brandon" now says he's the subject of threats and harassment by the commander in chief's supporters.

December 27, 2021

Biden goaded into saying ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ during Santa-tracking event

President Joseph R. Biden was goaded into saying "Let's go, Brandon" during the White House's annual Christmas Eve NORAD Santa-tracking event.

December 24, 2021

Festivus: Sen. Rand Paul airs grievances over wasteful spending, such as pigeons gambling study

Sen. Rand Paul issued his annual Dec. 23 Festivus "airing of grievances" on Thursday, highlighting the federal government's "out of control" spending in the spirit of the 1990s megahit TV sitcom, "Seinfeld."

December 23, 2021

Carjacked Dem lawmaker backed replacing police with mental health professionals

The Pennsylvania Democratic lawmaker carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia on Wednesday is a chief proponent of federal legislation to replace police officers with mental health professionals.

December 23, 2021

McConnell floats party-switch deal to moderate Democrat Manchin

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell floated on Wednesday the possibility of allowing Sen. Joe Manchin III to keep his committee chairmanship in a party-switch deal that would give Republicans majority control of the upper chamber.

December 22, 2021

Biden eases sanctions on Afghanistan, allowing U.S. tax dollars to fund civil society programs

President Biden bowed to his party's far-left on Wednesday by easing economic restrictions on the Taliban and allowing U.S. tax dollars to fund "civil society" programs in Afghanistan.

December 22, 2021

United Mine Workers breaks with Manchin over opposition to $1.75 trillion social welfare bill

Sen. Joe Manchin III's biggest ally in West Virginia is breaking with him over opposition to President Biden's mammoth social welfare and climate change package.

December 21, 2021

Manchin’s future as Democrat uncertain after killing Biden’s economic agenda

Sen. Joe Manchin III is awash in renewed speculation about his future as a Democrat after killing President Biden's economic agenda in Congress and becoming persona non grata in his party.

December 21, 2021

House Democrats demand Biden ease economic sanctions on the Taliban regime

More than 40 members of the far-left Congressional Progressive Caucus demanded Monday that President Biden ease economic sanctions and restrictions imposed on the Taliban.

December 20, 2021

Democrats refuse to accept defeat on Biden’s $1.75T Build Back Better Act

Democrats from the White House to Congress are refusing to accept that President Biden's $1.75 trillion Build Better Act is dead for the foreseeable future.

December 20, 2021

Manchin says White House tried to intimidate him into backing Biden’s $1.75T social welfare bill

Sen. Joe Manchin III accused senior members of President Biden's White House staff of trying to intimidate him into supporting the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, as he unloaded on the administration and his fellow Democrats on Monday.

December 20, 2021