The Latest Breaking News from Joe Manchin

Political challenges at home are making it tough for President Joe Biden to fulfill his promises to the rest of the world

WASHINGTON — Hours after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., delivered a fatal blow to climate change legislation championed by Joe Biden, White House officials began making plans for the president to take matters into his own hands.

Teetering on the brink of failure, President Joe Biden may be approaching even rockier roads this November, as congressional midterms threaten to upend what’s left of his modest, moderate agenda and his approval ratings hit an all-time low.

The party has largely abandoned its past climate denialism, but experts and activists say the ideas Republicans have proposed are insufficient or misguided

President Joe Biden is correct to blame Congress for the political stalemate blocking action on bills to address urgent issues such as climate change and abortion rights — action that most Americans want to see. But no amount of complaining about Republican obstinacy and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s swing-vote ambivalence…

The White House says that president has had several non-melanoma skin cancers removed

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced modest new steps to combat climate change and promised more robust action to come, saying, “This is an emergency and I will look at it that way.”

President Joe Biden called climate change an “existential threat” and unveiled new policies to fight its effects — including opening additional offshore areas to wind farms — after Sen. Joe Manchin’s objections halted broader legislation to curb rising temperatures.

WASHINGTON — One-fifth of the House and Senate, an increase from the current requirement of a single member in each chamber, would be needed for Congress to consider an objection to a state’s Electoral College votes under proposed legislation released Wednesday by a bipartisan group of more than a dozen…

Legislation would address threats to the electoral process but does not have enough votes to overcome the filibuster.

A bipartisan group of senators have reached agreement on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act