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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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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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Schumer Will Try to Change Senate Rules if G.O.P. Stalls Voting Bill — The Senate majority leader still lacks the votes to alter the filibuster, but he said he will renew the effort to enact voting rights measures as early as the first week of January. — WASHINGTON — Stymied by Republicans …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin hits back at White House pressure on Biden plan — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) hit back at White House staff on Monday and warned that Democrats had miscalculated by thinking that they could pressure him into backing President Biden's spending plan. — “They figured surely to God we can move one person.
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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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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.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democratic leaders fire a new shot at Manchin as his isolation deepens
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Don't Count Out Manchin's Vote Just Yet
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Matt Egan / CNN:
Goldman Sachs cuts US economic forecast after Joe Manchin rejects Build Back Better
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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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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
The White House's extraordinary, furious statement about Joe Manchin
New York Times:
Trump Sues New York A.G. in Attempt to Stop Inquiry Into His Business — The attorney general, Letitia James, is seeking to question the former president under oath next month as part of a long-running investigation. — Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general …
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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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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Reveals He Got Vaccine Booster Shot, Gets Booed by Tour Crowd — Donald Trump was met with boos when he revealed he had received a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Sunday. Trump made the revelation after telling a mostly unmasked crowd at the American Airlines Center …
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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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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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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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Matthew A. Winkler / Bloomberg:
Biden's Economic Performance Has Proved Unbeatable — No first-year president going back to Carter comes close to matching the current White House occupant's No. 1 or No. 2 ranking in each of 10 key measures. — U.S. financial markets are outperforming the world by the biggest margin in the 21st century …
Politico:
Dems sour on bid to ditch first-in-the-nation states — 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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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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John B. Washington / The Atlantic:
Trump's Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel — Tens of thousands of heavy steel slats, once destined to become part of former President Donald Trump's border wall, are slowly rusting in the open air throughout the southwestern borderlands. The bollards—18- or 33-foot-long hollow posts …
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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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Leia Idliby / Mediaite:
Louis C.K. Surprise Special Sorry Sparks Twitter Debate on Cancel Culture: 'Proves He Hasn't Learned Anything' — Louis C.K. dropped a new standup special this weekend, sparking a debate on whether on not the comedian was ever really canceled after admitting to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.
Jay K. Varma / New York Times:
There's One City That Can Show Us Our Omicron Future — 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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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 …
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Murphy, a leader of House Dem centrists, won't seek reelection — Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a leading voice of House Democrats' moderate wing, announced Monday she won't seek reelection next fall in another stinging loss for her party. — The Florida Democrat — who flipped a GOP-held battleground seat …
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