The Latest Breaking News from Joe Manchin

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s budget release on Monday is shaping up as a direct appeal to moderate Democrats, emphasizing deficit reduction and flexibility on social spending as the White House hopes to win support for new legislation before November’s midterm elections.

Tesla founder Elon Musk would pay an extra $50bn per year under Biden’s plan

President Joe Biden will broadly endorse the climate, social safety net and tax code changes the White House has pursued as part of his “Build Back Better” agenda in his budget proposal Monday, but he won’t specify the costs or revenues in a bid to avoid disrupting congressional negotiations.

America’s first Black justice was confirmed to the Supreme Court in 1967 but some question how much has changed, writes Andrew Buncombe

Rhode Island Democrat talks to the Guardian about the president’s climate record and targeting oil industry’s ‘achilles heel’

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.

The Democratic swing vote said he will support President Joe Biden’s nominee

Manchin's support essentially guarantees Jackson's confirmation to the court.

President travels to Rzeszow, 60 miles from Ukraine border, to meet US troops and Polish counterpart – follow the day’s politics news

Manchin recently told climate activists he's open to supporting revised Build Back Better legislation.

In his 14 months in office, the US president has grappled with Covid, inflation, the Russia-Ukraine war and energy prices – and seemingly can’t catch a break