Joe Manchin

Sen. Joe Manchin made a deal with Democratic leaders as part of his vote pushing the party’s highest legislative priority across the finish line last month.

President Joe Biden’s initial effort to rebuild America’s public infrastructure and family support systems had a price tag of $4 trillion. And it stalled in Congress. A much slimmer but still substantial compromise package costing $739 billion is now being considered by lawmakers. With strategies aimed at inflation-fighting health care, climate change and deficit reduction, the new measure appears headed...

In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin have reached an expansive agreement that had eluded them for months on health care, energy and climate issues, taxes on higher earners and corporations and trimming the federal debt. The two Democrats say the Senate will vote on the wide-ranging measure next week, setting up President Joe...

The two measures would overhaul the Electoral Count Act and close other loopholes in election law in an attempt to prevent future coup attempts.

Democrats plan to submit a “finalized agreement” on allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies to a key Senate official “in the coming days” to see if it complies with the chamber’s strict budget rules, one of the sources said.

The two centrist senators slammed the Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate abortion rights after they voted to confirm Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the court.

Democrats and Republicans say they hope to find consensus on legislation that could help reduce the number of mass shootings in the United States.

President Joe Biden has proposed a hike on the top marginal income tax bracket for single filers earning more than $400,000 and married couples above $450,000.

President Joe Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget for next year would trim federal deficits and boost taxes on the wealthiest Americans — but it needs every Democrat’s vote.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., announced Friday he plans to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, praising her “exemplary” record and career and labeling her “supremely qualified” to be a justice. The centrist Democrat’s support gives Jackson’s nomination a major boost after four days of contentious hearings, all but assuring her historic confirmation to be the...

Manchin said he would support Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination after he broke with President Biden and his party on some major issues.

Sen. Joe Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, said he is opposed to Sarah Bloom Raskin’s nomination to the Federal Reserve.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says Democrats should consider a GOP offer to advance four of President Joe Biden’s five nominees to the Fed.

In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden called for more aid for families with children. Still, there’s no timeline for any legislation.

Millions of parents would love to see more monthly child tax credit checks. But getting lawmakers to renew those payments under the same terms may be difficult.

While President Joe Biden outpaced former President Donald Trump by more than 7 million votes in 2020, another politician was busy winning her job in Washington by a much smaller margin: six votes. “I’m the poster child for why your vote matters,” Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks — an Iowa Republican whose single-digit margin of victory came in a district of 567,000…

We’ve all been tempted to sit out an election by convincing ourselves one vote doesn’t matter that much. But the truth is a single-digit number of votes can have a big impact on federal and local policies. NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky looks back at several elections where only a few votes made a big difference.

“Closing the Black wealth gap is not a job,” said the founder of The RLJ Cos. “It’s giving us more access to wealth sustainability.”

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema raised over $1.5 million toward the end of 2021 as she opposed key elements of her own party’s agenda, according to new filings.

Sen. Joe Manchin’s campaign raised nearly $300,000 from corporations and executives after he publicly opposed President Biden’s spending package.