Democrats may whittle down Biden’s social spending bill to win the West Virginia senator’s support.

The West Virginia senator has put one of the most effective policy proposals in the Build Back Better Act—and millions of kids—at risk.

Yes, the president has the barest majorities in Congress. But he could still be out there pushing Build Back Better a lot harder than he is.

The party may put Biden’s spending bill on the back burner and yank voting rights to the front of the line.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

Throughout the negotiations over Biden’s Build Back Better bill, the senator has unerringly demanded changes that would harm his state’s residents.

The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.

A basic income experiment in the state should teach national Democrats a lesson as they weigh a permanent Child Tax Credit.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

The West Virginia senator insists that work requirements be included in the bill, despite all the evidence suggesting they are unnecessary and ineffective.

The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.

We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

Expanded child tax credit checks start going out to families this week. Finally, we have a government that is redistributing wealth in the right direction.

The president’s forthcoming proposal on care could both meaningfully address the current crisis and open up space for more radical demands about work and family life.

The crisis of care is not new for low-income parents. The pandemic just spread the pain—and created new audiences for old solutions.

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