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CNN:
How months of talks between Biden and Manchin over Build Back Better broke down — (CNN)President Joe Biden was at home in Delaware Sunday when Sen. Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News to abruptly declare he could not support his sweeping social and climate plan.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The case for why BBB is dead — and for why it may not be — DRIVING THE DAY — Not 24 hours after Sen. JOE MANCHIN pulled the plug on President JOE BIDEN's Build Back Better Act, Democratic leaders are scrambling to revive it. White House officials are reimagining …
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Washington Post:
From charm offensive to scorched earth: How Biden's fragile alliance with Manchin unraveled — WILMINGTON, Del. — As Democrats feuded over the size and scope of their sweeping social spending proposal this fall, President Biden invited Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va) to his home here for breakfast …
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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia:
Manchin Statement On Build Back Better Act — Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on the Build Back Better Act. — “For five and a half months, I have worked as diligently as possible meeting with President Biden, Majority Leader Schumer …
Matt Egan / CNN:
Goldman Sachs cuts US economic forecast after Joe Manchin rejects Build Back Better
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New York Times:
Manchin Rejects Landmark Legislation, Putting Biden's Climate Goals at Risk
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats plot next steps after Manchin knifes Biden's Build Back Better Act
The White House:
Statement from Press Secretary Jen Psaki
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Politico:
How 14 policies could survive — or die — after Manchin's ‘no’
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Wall Street Journal:
The White House Art of Furious Persuasion
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Sen. Joe Manchin's position on Build Back Better reflects the reality of West Virginia politics
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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden promised competence and order. Chaos and uncertainty are winning.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: SCOOP: Manchin ‘refused’ a call from W.H. before killing BBB
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Did Joe Manchin Kill Joe Biden's Domestic Agenda?
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Manchin says he ‘cannot vote’ for Build Back Better: 'I've done everything humanly possible'
Grace Segers / New Republic:
Does Joe Manchin Know That Build Back Better Would Extend Vital Aid for Sick Coal Miners?
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Nicole Asbury / Washington Post:
D.C. third-graders were made to reenact episodes from the Holocaust — A Watkins Elementary School staff member told third-graders in library class to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig their classmates' mass graves and simulate shooting the victims, according to an email from the school's principal.
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Andrew Buncombe / The Independent:
Sarah Palin says ‘over my dead body’ will she have vaccine after contracting Covid — The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate revealed in March she had tested positive for Covid — Sarah Palin says ‘over my dead body’ will authorities make her have a covid vaccine shot
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CNN:
Outgoing NIH director says Trump and other Republicans pressured him to endorse unproven Covid-19 remedies and to fire Fauci — Washington (CNN)The outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday that he faced political pressure from then-President Donald Trump …
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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:
Sires won't seek re-election to Congress; U.S. Senator's son emerges as likely successor — Hudson County Democrat will retire after 2022 election after 18 years in Congress and five years as N.J. Assembly Speaker — Rep. Albio Sires (D-West New York) will not seek re-election in 2022 …
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Wall Street Journal:
NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni and Parents Struggle to Repay — By many measures, the elite Manhattan school is the worst or among the worst for leaving families and graduate students drowning in debt; 'It feels like I'm kind of trapped' — Five months after Kassandra Jones earned …
Ashish K. Jha / The Atlantic:
Don't Panic About Omicron. But Don't Be Indifferent, Either. — The Omicron wave is upon us, and the national conversation is vacillating between panic and indifference. Those who are near panic point to rapidly rising case counts and lockdowns in several European nations.
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Greg Clary / CNN:
3 Democratic lawmakers announce positive Covid-19 tests — (CNN)Three Democratic members of Congress announced Sunday that they have breakthrough coronavirus infections. — Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Cory Booker of New Jersey as well as Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado shared …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Brandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar — “I have zero desire to be involved in politics,” says Brandon Brown, the NASCAR driver at the center of the “Let's Go, Brandon!” meme. — WOODFORD, Va. — “What actually keeps you from getting any nausea is that you're so zoned in on just doing this …
CNN:
Justice Breyer has Democrats even more worried about the midterm elections — (CNN)Senate Republicans are poised to deny President Joe Biden an appointment to the Supreme Court if they take the majority in the 2022 midterm elections. — Five Republican senators raised …
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Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
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