Manchin Expresses Openness to Making Filibuster Harder to Use
WASHINGTON â Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, a moderate Democrat who has often balked at efforts to alter Senate rules to allow his...
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Kyrsten Sinema and the Thumbs-Down That Enraged the Left
WASHINGTON â When Senator Kyrsten Sinema stepped onto the Senate floor on Friday to vote against including a minimum-wage increase in President Bidenâs pandemic aid...
To Juice the Economy, Biden Bets on the Poor
But unlike Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump pursued a top-down approach to reinvigorating economic and wage growth. He cut taxes for corporations and other businesses, alongside...
Divided Senate Passes Bidenâs Pandemic Aid Plan
WASHINGTON â President Bidenâs sweeping $1.9 trillion stimulus bill passed a deeply divided Senate on Saturday over unanimous Republican opposition, as Democrats pushed through a...
Democrats Want a Stronger Edge in the Senate. Ohio Could Be Crucial.
And few states, in the Midwest or beyond, have the symbolic resonance of Ohio, which for decades served as a political bellwether and swing-state proving...
DeSantis Is Ascendant and Cuomo Is Faltering
Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is a darling of the right-wing media, a...
Democrats Agree to Trim Jobless Aid to Keep Stimulus Plan on Track
With the vote still pending on Friday because of the impasse over the jobless aid, the measure to increase the minimum wage to $15 by...
Whatâs in a Vote-a-Rama?
Maybe itâs just a simple matter of physics: The bigger and more hulking the thing is, the heavier and harder it is to move. Or...
Representative Eric Swalwell Sues Trump Over Capitol Riot
A House Democrat who unsuccessfully prosecuted Donald J. Trump at his impeachment trial sued him in federal court on Friday for acts of terrorism and...
A Vexing Question for Democrats: What Drives Latino Men to Republicans?
Sergio Arellano of Phoenix, Ariz., said he had a story he liked to tell about the moment he registered as a Republican. When he was...