“It’s not ideal, but it’s how the sausage gets made, right? I try not to go to the sausage factory.”

The West Virginia senator shut down talk of extending the expanded credit in the reconciliation bill, but some in Congress see hope in future negotiations over a tax package.

In a just world, Democrats would be able to oust Manchin from the party leadership role, as happened to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Why do Charlie Brown and Democrats keep falling for it every time they pull the football away?

Your grandmother can’t afford a hearing aid. The FDA wants to fix that, but Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley say legacy manufacturers are trying to block the way.

Plenty has been out of his control. But the president has bungled a few things along the way.

With poll numbers growing more dire by the day, the party needs to shake off its torpor and remind people what it stands for.

As the midterms loom, the recipients of the now-expired benefit are turning against Democrats.

Putting Donald Trump on the ballot won’t save them.

The poorest Americans are feeling the biggest squeeze from rising prices. Alas, Congress allowed a program that might have helped them to expire last year.

November keeps inching closer. The best way for Democrats to stave off defeat is to take aim at corporate power.

In an interview with The New Republic, the Ohio Democrat was keen to remind: “Fifty Republicans voted against the child tax credit twice.”

A new poll has some pretty grim economic news for Democrats: Respondents associate the phrase “middle class” more with Republicans.

A fiscal crisis is looming for the childcare industry, and the Democrats don’t have the votes to do anything about it.

Congress can’t pass laws, so Democrats want Biden to issue more executive orders. But the conservative Supreme Court often rejects such orders, requiring Congress to pass a law. But Congress can’t pass laws …

The pandemic widened the gaps between the haves and have-nots—thus sowing the seeds of the next pandemic.

A crisis in Ukraine has refocused his presidency. But he’s still trying to fill a Build Back Better Act–size hole in his domestic agenda.

For months, the Arizona senator has stymied the Democrats’ agenda, dragged down her party’s reelection hopes, and earned the ire of her supporters. We still don’t know why.

Why did the West Virginia senator kill the biggest expansion of the social safety net since LBJ’s Great Society?

The California representative says Build Back Better needs to get pared down to some urgent essentials.