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The Senate rejected a bill on Thursday that would have restored lapsed tax breaks for businesses and expanded the child tax credit, as many Republicans in the chamber lined up against the bipartisan deal in hopes of gaining an advantage in bigger tax legislation expected next year.
Senator Joe Manchin III, a longtime Democrat from West Virginia who recently abandoned the party to declare himself an independent, on Sunday joined the growing calls in the Senate for President Biden to step aside as the Democratic nominee for president.
With President Biden struggling to right his listing re-election campaign, Democrats and Republicans are closely watching how the presidential contest is affecting races farther down the ballot.
Senator Joe Manchin III, the conservative West Virginia Democrat who has said he will retire at the end of his term, on Friday switched his party registration to independent, the final step in a yearslong breakup with his party that left open the possibility of another run for office.
The fight for Senate control is playing out almost entirely in Democratically held seats this year as President Biden’s party defends a slim 51-49 seat majority.
Senator Sherrod Brown, the only Democrat still holding statewide elective office in Ohio, was renominated for his Senate seat on Tuesday, as three Republicans duked it out for the right to challenge the incumbent in November.
Time may be finally running out on the filibuster, the signature dilatory tactic in the Senate embraced by some as a protector of minority rights and reviled by others as an outdated weapon of partisan obstruction.
After approving impeachment articles against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, that are doomed in the Senate, House Republicans are facing a confounding question: How — and when — do you take a political loss in the least embarrassing way?