Manchin defends climate, tax deal with Schumer in multi-show blitz
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) appeared on all five major political talk shows on Sunday to defend his climate, health care and tax deal reached with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) while fending Republican senators who called it a betrayal. Manchin took to the airwaves to portray the package as inflation-fighting legislation, championing provisions like those empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices and a $300 billion allocation to reduce the federal deficit. “It's not a Democrat bill,” Manchin said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It's not a Republican
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Read MoreClimate change and the Supreme Court’s version of police abolitionism
West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, which in June gutted the Biden administration’s ability to reduce the electrical power industry’s carbon emissions, may be the Supreme Court’s most reckless and lawless decision (in an extremely competitive field). The court comes close to anarchism, crippling Congress’s capacity to protect the country from disaster and undermining the fundamental purpose of the Constit
Read MoreBiden feels well after COVID 'rebound positivity,' physician says
President Biden is feeling well after testing positive again for COVID-19, his physician said Sunday. An update from White House physician Kevin O’Connor says the president is isolating in the executive residence and conducting his duties remotely. Biden first tested positive for COVID-19 last week and tested negative after completing a five-day regimen of t
Read MoreRepublicans leading midterm race for House: CBS poll
New CBS News Battleground Tracker polling shows Republicans in the lead for control of the House ahead of this year’s midterm elections, with 230 seats projected for the GOP and 205 for Democrats. GOP wins in 230 districts would give Republicans 12 seats more than the 218 needed to control the chamber. Democrats currently claim a slim majority of 221 seats to Republicans' 214. The poll’s margin of error for the parties’ projections is 12 seats.
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