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| Schumer-McConnell dial down the debt ceiling drama | | By Jordain Carney | | |  | Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) are dialing down the drama as they try to find an escape hatch from another high-stakes fight over the debt ceiling.
Congress has until roughly Dec. 15 to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who has warned that the mid-December date is when the government will no longer be able to fully pay its bills. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | |
| Democrats plow ahead as Manchin yo-yos | | By Jordain Carney | | | Senate Democrats are preparing to plow ahead with President Biden’s social spending and climate legislation, even as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) yo-yos over the timeline.
With the House passing the social spending and climate bill on Friday, the clock is now ticking in the Senate, where Democrats have no room for error if they are going to be able to get a bill to Biden. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | |
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| | | By Rebecca Beitsch | | | | The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to prosecute Stephen Bannon for defying a congressional subpoena could give needed leverage to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as it seeks to wrangle interviews with uncooperative aides to former President Trump. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | |
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| Biden mourns loss of over 40 transgender Americans that died by violence in 2021 | | By Lexi Lonas | | | President Biden released a statement Saturday mourning the loss of more than 40 transgender Americans who died by violence in 2021.
“Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans, as well as the countless other transgender people — disproportionately Black and brown transgender women and girls — who face brutal violence, discrimination, and harassment,” Biden said. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | |
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| Do Americans deserve the right to recall a president? | | By Douglas MacKinnon | | | | OPINION | During former President Trump’s administration, hundreds of thousands of Americans looked for a way to impeach or recall him to get him out of office. Change.org attempted to give them a platform to channel their angst and anger. Through various petitions, the group collected more than 6 million signatures from people wanting to hold Trump “accountable,” impeach him, or recall his election. | | Read the full story here | | | | | | | |
| Build Back Better is a 21st century New Deal | | By James Roosevelt, Jr., Henry Scott Wallace and Tomlin Perkins | | | | OPINION | In his marathon floor speech Thursday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) angrily accused Biden of behaving like President Franklin Roosevelt in proposing major social spending — the Build Back Better Act, then under consideration. McCarthy cited Rep. Abigail Spanberger (Va.), a moderate Democrat, saying that “Nobody elected [Biden] to be FDR” — prompting shouts of “I did!” and “Me too!” from the Democratic side. | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | |
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