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

Families with school-age kids have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Will they make themselves heard at the ballot box?

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

Senator Mitt Romney’s child allowance proposal may offer a basis for future bipartisan negotiations.

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

The worst political fight is the one you never start.

“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”

With Build Back Better stalled, the final payments went toward savings, childcare, and a few Christmas gifts.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

Democrats may whittle down Biden’s social spending bill to win the West Virginia senator’s support.

The West Virginia senator has put one of the most effective policy proposals in the Build Back Better Act—and millions of kids—at risk.

Yes, the president has the barest majorities in Congress. But he could still be out there pushing Build Back Better a lot harder than he is.

The party may put Biden’s spending bill on the back burner and yank voting rights to the front of the line.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

Throughout the negotiations over Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the senator has unerringly demanded changes that would harm his state’s residents.

The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.

A basic income experiment in the state should teach national Democrats a lesson as they weigh a permanent Child Tax Credit.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

The West Virginia senator insists that work requirements be included in the bill, despite all the evidence suggesting they are unnecessary and ineffective.

The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.