With poll numbers growing more dire by the day, the party needs to shake off its torpor and remind people what it stands for.

The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.

Blue states like New York and California want to restore the unlimited state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. Biden’s DOJ is trying to preserve the $10,000 limit—even though Trump enacted it to punish Democrats.

Biden’s Supreme Court nominee met with Senate leaders on Wednesday, kicking off what Democrats hope will be a quick confirmation process.

The not-funny names that lawmakers invent to sell their policy ideas are evidence of a legislative body in deep decline.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are teeming with ideas to halt the practice of self-enrichment. Which one will they choose?

The House passed the China competitiveness bill, which includes funding to shore up faltering supply chains.

The GOP can slow down the confirmation process for Stephen Breyer’s replacement, but the Democrats almost certainly have the votes to confirm her.

Experts and politicians agree: The measure is in desperate need of reform, in order to avoid a repeat of 2020 in 2024.

Biden is hoping that some sizable portion of his social spending bill might yet make it to his desk.

The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

Until Biden’s congressional allies get his agenda unstuck, the party is going to struggle to find a message for the midterms.

Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.

In order to avert a catastrophe for democracy, the party must get over its Joe Manchin problem ahead of the 2022 midterms.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

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

Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.

The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

With Build Back Better on ice, the upper body is moving forward with its regular round of defense spending.