Will Democrats Let the Senate Parliamentarian Stand in the Way of Immigration Reform?
Immigrants march in Washington DC in December to call for a path to citizenship.Isabela Dias Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In another blow to Democrats’ aspirations to include immigration provisions in Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the Senate parliamentarian opposed a plan…
Kyrsten Sinema Is Thankful for All Your Feedback
Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Perhaps the defining characteristic of Kyrsten Sinema’s first nine months in the Senate majority was a persistent, intractable silence. The Arizona Democrat, whose corporate-friendly centrism and dogmatic embrace of bipartisanship has…
In the Middle of Infrastructure Talks, Joe Manchin Has Pursued a Book Deal
Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via AP, Pool Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Over the past few weeks, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has been involved in some of the most intense Capitol Hill negotiations of recent years. As one of two hold-out…
Republicans Once Supported the Voting Rights Act. Today, They Voted Against Its Restoration.
Barack Obama, the late John Lewis, and Former President George W. Bush hold hands for a prayer after Obama spoke near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.”Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On…
Is Kyrsten Sinema Ready to Listen to Elizabeth Warren?
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Negotiations over President Joe Biden’s sweeping domestic agenda hit the skids this month when Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) made clear she’d refuse to back tax hikes on corporations to pay for an expected $2 trillion…
Joe Manchin Called Our Reporting “Bullshit.” Now He’s Got a Different Story.
Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When Mother Jones reported on Wednesday that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) had told associates he was considering quitting the Democratic Party and had a specific plan on how to do so, he told Capitol…