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“The United States Senate has never been able to end debate with a simple majority," Manchin said. That's not true

WASHINGTON — Among President Joe Biden's most valuable political skills has been a knack for planting himself firmly at the ideological center of the Democratic Party, a trait that helped him win elections amid shifting winds over five decades in public life. In office, that strategy enabled him to cobble…

Manchin and Sinema’s intransigence on the filibuster helps the Republican party usher in an era of voter suppression and election subversion

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The Build Back Better bill, the centerpiece of the Biden administration’s domestic policy, cleared the House of Representatives by a slender margin largely along party lines in November 2021.

Despite victories from Covid to climate change, the president is hamstrung and the nation as divided as ever, says history professor Adam Tooze

Voting legislation that Democrats and civil rights groups argue is vital for protecting democracy has collapsed

Comes after week-long push to change the filibuster among Senate Democrats

Sweeping protections for voters, already passed by House and backed by Biden, fail to clear 60-vote procedural hurdle

A growing number of Democrats are abandoning hopes of the transformational in exchange for what's possible.

Comments come as the president delivered his first news conference of the year