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9:50 AM ET, December 20, 2021

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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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Axios:
Manchin's next move  —  If Sen. Joe Manchin bolts the Democratic Party, he'd be more likely to switch to independent — and caucus with the Democrats — than become a Republican, people close to him tell Axios.  —  Driving the news: Manchin's surprise body blow to President Biden's Build …
HuffPost:
Joe Manchin Privately Told Colleagues Parents Use Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs  —  The West Virginia senator just killed Democrats' agenda.  In private negotiations, he questioned whether the poorest Americans would spend financial aid wisely.  —  WASHINGTON — After months of haggling …
Alan Cole / Full Stack Economics:
Joe Manchin's friends aren't listening to him  —  The Senator has spoken plenty.  They just don't want to hear him.  —  Yesterday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) once again threw cold water on President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan, a fiscal agenda that includes priorities in health, childcare, and climate.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia:
Manchin Statement On Build Back Better Act
Wall Street Journal:
Joe Manchin Rescues the Democrats
National Review:
Good Riddance to Build Back Better
Discussion: Roll Call
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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The Times of Israel:
DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’
Discussion: Instapundit
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PBS NewsHour:
Biden's approval dips to new low as independents sour on his leadership  —  As President Joe Biden heads into the end of the year, he's facing a sour reality: The number of Americans who approve of his performance has hit a new low.  Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job he has been doing …
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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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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Why Trump appears deeply unnerved as Capitol attack investigation closes in  —  Flurry of recent revelations raises the specter that the committee is swiftly heading towards an incriminating conclusion  —  Donald Trump is increasingly agitated by the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack …
Discussion: MSNBC, Just Security, Raw Story and Althouse
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Oust Trump coup planners, enablers and provocateurs from public office.  They betrayed us.  —  Expulsion is the most severe penalty in Congress.  Its historic trigger has been disloyalty to America - a hallmark of Trump's Big Lie and failed coup.  —  The price of admission in a democracy is accepting that your side has lost.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Discussion: The Morning Missive
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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