Democrats’ Agenda Stalls With Big Setbacks At Year’s End

Democrats are approaching the end of the year with little to show for their efforts at passing new laws protecting voting rights, reforming the immigration system, expanding the social safety net, fighting climate change and more. With a tenuous 50-seat

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Inside the Manchin-Sanders feud that has Democrats nervous about Biden’s agenda

Because once they do, the California Democrat suggested, it would almost certainly satisfy the moderate and liberal wings of the Democratic caucus, which have been battling over the size, scope and details of the plan for months. But Biden, according

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With Biden’s Agenda in the Balance, Lobbying Kicks Into High Gear

The Building Back Better Coalition, formed to support the proposals, has spent nearly $7 million on advertising this month, including an ad that says “C.E.O.s and Big Pharma” are “lying” to voters about Mr. Biden’s plan. The League of Conservation

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Biden Throws In With Left, Leaving His Agenda in Doubt

WASHINGTON — For well over a year now, President Biden’s vaunted negotiating style largely boiled down to this: I’m with you. After he vanquished Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the Democratic primary, he brought the liberal icon’s ardent supporters

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Biden scrambling to Congress in desperate bid to salvage agenda

WASHINGTON — President Biden will scramble to Capitol Hill Friday afternoon to try and salvage his signature spending plans after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid the groundwork to delay a vote on his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill for up to

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With their agenda in the balance, Biden and Pelosi work the Congressional Baseball Game.

Lawmakers have been playing a lot of political hardball on Capitol Hill given the multiple crises consuming Washington, but it was actual hardball that drew Democrats and Republicans to Nationals Park on Wednesday night for the annual congressional baseball charity

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