“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.

West Virginians don’t waste much time worrying that corporations pay too much in taxes. Why does Joe?

Joe Manchin’s ability to sink climate legislation is getting less attention than the January 6 hearings. But it’s just as dire a sign for democracy.

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?

“Direct pay” would make more efficient use of public money and speed up renewable energy investment. But Manchin doesn’t want that.

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

Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.

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

The climate is too far gone for Joe Manchin’s “compromises”—all of which seem to include handouts to fossil fuel companies.

Legislative battles are fronts in a larger—and winnable—ideological war.

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.

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

What’s the point of a Democratic Party if it isn’t going to protect the interests of working people?

Joe Manchin already shot it down, so it’s moot, but there are far easier ways to tax the rich if the Democrats really want to.

His budget proposal to tax the wealth of America’s top plutocrats may face an uphill battle in Congress, but it signals a new midterm message.

Democrats in Congress want to pass a windfall profits tax and send the money to Americans via stimulus checks. Well—most Democrats, that is.

Speaking at a conference of oil and gas executives last week, Senator Manchin outlined his views on fossil fuels and politics.

Bipartisan momentum is growing to hit Putin where it hurts. But American taxpayers—and the planet—are going to have to take one for the team as well.