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Sarah Bloom Raskin withdraws Federal Reserve nomination

Raskin's nomination was effectively set to fail after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) announced his opposition on Monday.

Axios

Joe Manchin is back to block Joe Biden

Manchin's party, meanwhile, has widely touted Sarah Bloom Raskin's pedigree

Salon

Why Sarah Bloom Raskin's climate views sank her Fed nomination

The move signals the oil and gas industry's resistance to weaving climate into financial policies.

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First Thing: will voters approve of Biden’s handling of the Ukraine crisis?

Democrats tout Biden’s role in responding to Russian aggression and highlight contrast with Putin-friendly Trump. Plus, Pete Davidson is going to space

The Guardian - UK

Manchin ‘very reluctant’ on electric cars in ominous sign for Biden’s climate fight

Centrist Democrat, who holds key swing vote in US Senate, has poured scorn on the idea of phasing out gasoline and diesel cars

The Guardian - US

Raskin nomination for Fed in peril as Democrat opposes pick

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, says he opposes the nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin to a key position on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, endangering her prospects of winning Senate confirmation

The Independent UK

Joe Manchin doesn’t know how electric cars work

The senator from West Virginia says he’s worried about people “standing in line” waiting for car batteries.

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Sen. Manchin says he can't support Biden's Fed nominee Sarah Bloom Raskin

President Biden nominated her for the Federal Reserve's vice chair of supervision.

Axios

White House warns of ‘significant consequences’ if China aids Russia – as it happened

White House press secretary Jen Psaki declines to say if China had provided any military aid to Russia since the war began

The Guardian - US

Raskin’s nomination takes a hit as Manchin backs separate Fed votes

Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to be Federal Reserve vice chair of supervision has taken another hit as key Senate Democrat Joe Manchin suggests President Joe Biden’s other four central bank nominees move forward without her.

Tribune News Service

Biden speech fans faint hopes for social, environment bill

Pivotal Sen. Joe Manchin has floated the broad outlines of a reconfigured social and environment package that aims half its resources at reducing federal deficits

The Independent UK

Manchin outlines a path to revive Biden’s stalled economic agenda

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin laid out a path to reviving President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, saying he could support a slimmed-down version that splits any revenue raised between shrinking the deficit and new spending.

Tribune News Service

Joe Manchin sits with GOP for State of the Union

‘Switch parties, Joe. For the good of the country’

The Independent UK

Biden’s State of the Union address: a perfect summation of his presidency

The US president has good intentions, with only halting, sporadic, uncreative, and trepidatious efforts to actually enact them

The Guardian - US

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Biden Tries To Twist His Domestic Agenda Into a Form Joe Manchin Will Support

Biden made some vague promises about deficit reduction during Tuesday's State of the Union address. They don't add up.

The Guardian - US

State of the Union live: Biden denounces ‘menacing’ Putin and vows to tackle inflation and Covid – as it happened

President condemns Russia, outlines plans to deal with rising prices and promises ‘new moment’ in fight against coronavirus

The Guardian - US

Republicans and Joe Manchin block Senate bill to secure abortion rights

Democrats knew it would not pass but wanted the votes recorded nonetheless

The Independent UK

New Yorker convicted of death threats against Joe Manchin and Fox News hosts

Threats found in private messages and public videos

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Will Bunch: Right now, a US toddler is starving because of Senate cowards

It was two years ago this month that a working single mom turned anti-poverty activist from Wheeling, West Virginia, named Amy Jo Hutchison sat before a U.S. House committee on Capitol Hill and tried to educate members of Congress about the relentless hard work of being poor in America in…

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Don’t ‘means test’ the Child Tax Credit

Decades ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned about the deceptions or “clever sophistries” of politicians. “We must be as armed with knowledge as they are,” he counseled.

Salon

How Kyrsten Sinema lost Joe Manchin

Manchin wants to revisit corporate tax hikes – but he'll have to go through Kyrsten Sinema

Tribune News Service

Manchin prods Fed to tackle inflation, citing economy risk

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin said the Federal Reserve needs to “stop pussyfooting around” and “tackle inflation head-on,” renewing his call for the central bank to act against the fastest pace of price increases since the early 1980s.

Los Angeles Times

As Biden agenda hangs by a thread, Democrats question strategy of Schumer and top White House official

WASHINGTON — For all the ire directed by liberal activists at two moderate senators who in recent weeks scuttled President Joe Biden’s most ambitious plans, Democratic members of Congress increasingly cast blame on another duo for the failures, raising questions about whether the party can resurrect the centerpiece of its…

The Independent UK

Vexation, victory claims as Dems face their limits in Senate

Democrats have conflicting views of what they're accomplishing in the 50-50 Senate and of how to take advantage of their control on the chamber

Tribune News Service

White House shifts to deficit reduction to get Manchin’s vote

The White House is considering reworking President Joe Biden’s economic plan to emphasize deficit reduction in a bid to secure support from Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, a person familiar with the administration’s discussions said.

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