Biden in Poland for meetings on Ukraine refugee crisis – US politics as it happened
by Lauren Gambino in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5XGCZ)
- President travels to Rzeszow, 60 miles from Ukraine border
- Joe Manchin says he will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Joe Manchin is back in the headlines with an apparent offer to revive Democrats' climate and social spending plans - aims he had a lot to do with thwarting in December.
The Washington Post cites two sources in saying the West Virginia senator, who holds outsized power as a centrist swing vote in the 50-50 chamber, wants the bill to take an all-of-the-above' approach to energy policy ... and that it's still possible to reach a deal that includes billions of dollars' worth of provisions to tackle climate change, cut prescription drug costs and update the tax code.
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