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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 …
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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 …
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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.
Matt Egan / CNN:
Goldman Sachs cuts US economic forecast after Joe Manchin rejects Build Back Better — (CNN Business)Senator Joe Manchin's opposition to the Build Back Better Act prompted Goldman Sachs to swiftly dim its US economic outlook. — The Wall Street firm told clients Sunday …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The case for why BBB is dead — and for why it may not be
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Wall Street Journal:
Joe Manchin Rescues the Democrats
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Politico:
How 14 policies could survive — or die — after Manchin's ‘no’
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The White House:
Statement from Press Secretary Jen Psaki
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New York Times:
Manchin Rejects Landmark Legislation, Putting Biden's Climate Goals at Risk
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Politico:
Dems trip over their own sky-high expectations
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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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The Times of Israel:
DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’ — Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shooting victims; Jewish student cast as Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise — A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended …
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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 …
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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.
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Lily Kuo / Washington Post:
Peng Shuai says her allegations of sexual assault against former Chinese official were misunderstood — Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai appeared in a new video on Sunday claiming that her allegations of sexual assault against a former senior Chinese official, which prompted international outcry …
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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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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden promised competence and order. Chaos and uncertainty are winning.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Moderna says its booster significantly raises the level of antibodies to thwart Omicron. — A booster shot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine significantly raises the level of antibodies that can thwart the Omicron variant, the company announced on Monday. — The news arrives …
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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 …
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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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Jay K. Varma / New York Times:
What Our Omicron Future Should Look Like — Dr. Varma is a professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and an epidemiologist focused on implementing large-scale responses to infectious diseases such as Covid-19, including recently in New York. — If you want to know what the Omicron variant means …
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Hunter Walker / The Uprising:
Harrison Ford?! Weird Election Incident Involving Kanye West Publicist May Point to Trump Campaign Aide — The Uprising is an independent publication supported by readers like you! If you appreciate original investigative journalism, please sign up! — Subscribe now
Tim Miller / Morning Shots:
Unboosted and Killing It: Trump and DeSantis Fully Submit to the Anti-Vax Mob — Hey yall - — I'm sitting in again today and am focusing the rundown on the MAGA leaders full-embrace of their anti-vax base. — But first: If you missed it on Friday I had the pleasure of taking …
Politico:
Dems hit brakes on bid to dethrone Iowa, New Hampshire in 2024 — CHARLESTON, S.C. — Less than a year ago, Iowa and New Hampshire appeared poised to lose their privileged places on the Democratic Party's presidential primary calendar. — But Democrats, including in the White House, suddenly have more pressing problems.
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Lara Williams / Bloomberg:
It's Hard to Deny It Was Elon Musk's Year — Last week, Time revealed its “Person of the Year.” 2021, of course, has been a year in which humanity has suffered from the brutal effects of an ongoing pandemic, supply-chain crisis and climate change. — The person they chose?
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