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Last week, Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) announced that he could not support new tax hikes or new spending on climate initiatives. His pronouncement seemed to kill congressional Democrats' hopes of ...

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President Joe Biden’s economic agenda might be back from the dead. If the original proposal was Build Back Better, this is more like Build Back a Bit. Democrats this week took the first formal step ...

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