Democrats can cut programs, tighten expiration dates, or count tax cuts and spending separately. But so far they’re just posturing and fighting.
Joe Manchin
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Undignified Demise of Centrism
Centrist Democrats may force changes to the Build Back Better Act, but their rationale as a political orientation has disintegrated.
Posted inTAP
Are Progressives About to Get Rolled Again?
Today on TAP: The devil is in the fine print
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
U.S. Demands Something for Nothing at Glasgow
The top constraint on global climate talks is still parochial American politics.
Posted inPolitics
The New York Times’ Misleading Headline of the Year
Biden hasn’t ‘thrown in with the left.’ The left has backed his compromises; the center-right has not.
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Progressive Caucus Wields Power
In a rare moment in Congress, progressive Democrats held the line, for now.
Posted inPolitics
Interlocking Crises in Congress Have Simple Solutions
Actually negotiate the Biden agenda, and put the debt limit out of its misery
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Manchin Poised to Profit From Mine Reclamation Funding He Championed
Enersystems, Joe Manchin’s family coal company, has contracts with the only power plant in West Virginia that burns coal from reclaimed mine projects.