The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

The worst political fight is the one you never start.

Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin reiterated their opposition to weakening the filibuster on Thursday.

Long after it was an obvious need, the president is asking Democrats in the upper house of Congress to change their rules.

Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.

A $26 billion deal is now in local governments’ hands. It could go to harm reduction or toward police and politicians’ pet concerns.

In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of overdose deaths surged past 100,000 for the first time in 2021.

In order to avert a catastrophe for democracy, the party must get over its Joe Manchin problem ahead of the 2022 midterms.

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

The conventional Beltway wisdom is that all Mountain State Democrats think like Manchin. The reality is a lot more complicated.

The first year of Biden’s presidency began with ambitious plans, and it’s ending with a whimper. Here’s what to expect—and hope for—in 2022.

This year isn’t ending the way Democrats had hoped. But there’s a way the president can transform Americans’ lives without Congress’s help: bust up monopolies.

The Build Back Better Act was probably the last best chance for immigration reform for a long time. And even that didn’t offer much.

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

Democrats from the president on down are furious at the senator. Unfortunately, though, they still need his vote, and they know it.

The senator says he’s a “no” on Biden’s Build Back Better Act, ensuring that the struggling people of his state fall further behind.

The West Virginia senator said on Sunday that he “cannot vote” for the current version of the social spending bill.

The Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is in danger of insolvency, which could affect industry veterans stricken with the disease.

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.

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