Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

Manchin Pulls Plug on Climate and Tax Talks, Shrinking Domestic Plan

WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, pulled the plug on Thursday on negotiations to salvage key pieces of President Biden’s agenda, informing his party’s leaders that he would not support funding for climate or energy programs or raising taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations. The decision by Mr. Manchin, a conservative-leaning […]

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Democrats Offer Plan to Cut Drug Costs, Seeking Climate and Tax Deal

WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats on Wednesday released an updated plan aimed at lowering the cost of prescription drugs, signaling progress on a crucial piece of their bid to salvage some of President Biden’s stalled social safety net, climate and tax bill. Democratic leaders negotiated the drug-pricing proposal primarily with Senator Joe Manchin III of […]

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With a Few Jokes, Biden and Obama Revisit the ‘Good Old Days’

WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday, the first visit he had made since departing in January 2017, to celebrate a new policy that expands coverage under the Affordable Care Act, his signature domestic policy achievement. But first, a buddy comedy act we’ve seen somewhere before. “Vice President Biden,” […]

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