Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says that he will not support efforts by Democrats to overrule the Senate’s nonpartisan referee and include wide-ranging immigration in their $1.75 trillion reconciliation bill. Immigration reform has been a top priority for Democrats since Barack Obama’s presidency—and they see their current reconciliation bill as a once-in-a-decade opportunity to finally act…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Wednesday that paid leave will be included in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill after having been excluded earlier in a compromise draft of the legislation. In a “Dear Colleague” letter, Pelosi discussed the progress made in advancing the bill over the past week. She said of the…

After moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) re-upped his challenge to not vote for Democrats’ $1.75 trillion reconciliation bill, leaders in the party responded coolly, predicting that passage of the Biden agenda is near at hand. The Biden agenda, consisting of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure (BIF) bill and the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better reconciliation bill,…

At a press conference Monday afternoon, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) called on the House to stop playing “political games” and to move ahead with a floor vote on the Senate-passed $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. Since August, progressives in the House have held the bipartisan infrastructure bill (BIF) hostage in an attempt to compel votes for…

Democrats have unveiled a new plan to include amnesty for illegal aliens in their landmark multi-trillion dollar reconciliation bill after their first two efforts were shot down by the Senate parliamentarian. The party has been desperate to find a way to include as much blanket amnesty for illegal immigrants as possible, seeing the current makeup…

Conservative commentator and advocate Aaron Gunn says the rejection of his application to run in the BC Liberals’ leadership contest goes against party members’ democratic rights to choose their own leader. “It’s an affront to democracy,” Gunn told The Epoch Times, adding that the rejection is an example of elites “thinking that they know better than…

House progressives have returned to a hardline policy towards the bipartisan infrastructure (BIF) bill, demanding that it and the Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill be passed at the same time, a move that moderates have adamantly opposed in the past. The position is nothing new for progressives, who have made and held to the…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a publicly-released letter that most House progressives support passage of the $1.2 trillion Senate-passed infrastructure bill, despite continued divisions forcing her to push off a Thursday vote on the bill. While progressives are generally supportive of the smaller infrastructure-focused bill, they see the more expansive Build…

Congressional leadership has cut a controversial program from their new budget bill that would have allowed the IRS to gain unprecedented information from Americans’ bank accounts after the measure drew bipartisan criticism. The program would have expanded the IRS’s ability to look into the details of Americans’ bank transactions. Originally, the IRS would have been…

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says that a deal on the Democrats’ divisive multi-trillion dollar budget bill is imminent after months of infighting between party moderates and progressives. She now plans to move the bill to the Rules Committee to advance it toward a vote on the House floor. Pelosi’s prediction comes after…