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Biden was poised to nominate an anti-abortion attorney to a federal judgeship on the day Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court: report
"If the president makes that nomination, it is indefensible," Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said of …
John L. Dorman
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Kentucky's Democratic governor says it would be 'indefensible' for Biden to nominate an anti-abortion Republican to a lifetime federal judgeship
Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed the planned nomination on Thursday, and the judge that Biden plans to r…
Bryan Metzger
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Biden to nominate an anti-abortion Republican to be a lifetime federal judge 5 days after he vowed to protect abortion rights
A Kentucky Democrat said Biden will nominate anti-abortion lawyer Chad Meredith and claimed it's pa…
Mia Jankowicz
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Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing: The labor shortage's wage gains are great
For Democrats, the labor shortage is giving workers much-needed power. For Republicans, it's the fr…
Ben Winck
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Democrats are unlikely to extend federal unemployment benefits after they expire in 2 weeks
All pandemic aid programs for those experiencing joblessness are slated to expire at the federal le…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Erin Sno…
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LIVE RESULTS: Kentucky holds US Senate, House, and state legislative primary elections
Democratic candidates are vying to succeed influential retiring House Budget Chair Rep. John Yarmut…
Grace Panetta
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Lauren Boebert posted her own Christmas photo of her kids posing with rifles after a GOP rep was criticized for his
Boebert posted her photo in support of Rep. Thomas Massie, who sparked a backlash with his own gun-…
Thomas Colson
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Democrats are already floating another social spending bill to 'put Republicans on the spot' on popular benefit expansions before the 2022 midterms
Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants aren't ruling out another reconciliation bill if it means fulf…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Raising the federal minimum wage through budget reconciliation would be 'a stretch,' House Budget Chairman says
House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth said that using budget reconciliation to raise federal minimum w…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden no longer set to nominate anti-abortion conservative to life-long federal judgeship following objection from Rand Paul
Sen. Mitch McConnell, who was suspected to be in a deal with Biden for Chad Meredith's potential ap…
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Senate Republicans are on the verge of backing a default on the national debt
The GOP wants to force Democrats to raise the debt ceiling alone, but there's no guarantee Democrat…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Kyrsten Sinema says she'll be 'the same person' and not switch up her demands if Build Back Better is revived
Sinema seems to be trying to distance herself from Joe Manchin. Democrats complained he moved the g…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Mitch McConnell tells Democrats not to 'play Russian roulette with the economy' as the GOP plays Russian roulette with the economy
McConnell started a logjam in Congress. Now he's lecturing Democrats about fixing it, as the US bar…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Rep. Lauren Boebert reportedly asked an Orthodox Jewish group if they were doing 'reconnaissance' at the Capitol
"I'm too short to see anyone's yarmulkes," said Boebert. Her office said that she was actually tryi…
Bryan Metzger
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A Kentucky Democrat says solving the labor shortage is 'cultural' because young people now 'can make as much money being a barista as they can being an assembly-line worker'
Budget chair John Yarmuth says "so many things are changing right now in terms of the nature of wor…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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As the pandemic raged, at least 75 lawmakers bought and sold stock in companies that make COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and tests
At least 75 federal lawmakers held shares of the COVID-19 vaccine makers Moderna, Johnson & Johnson…
Camila DeChalus,Kimberly Leon…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deletes her tweet wrongly calling a Democratic congressman an 'older male' Republican
"We have a message for the woke socialist from New York. This older male member is a Democrat," The…
Eliza Relman
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Mitch McConnell says the US won't default on its debt as he pushes the US closer to defaulting on its debt
Democrats are scrambling for alternatives to skirt GOP opposition. They're considering maneuvers li…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Democrats say they 'have no sense' of what Kyrsten Sinema wants in Biden's safety-net package as she opposes tax hikes
Sinema is fundraising abroad while talks around President Joe Biden's spending plan stall in part o…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Biden's economic agenda is in 'significant danger' of collapse. Their worst-case scenario for the 2022 midterms is inching closer.
Biden needs results not just to transform the economy, but to have something to run on. "The party'…