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BUILD BACK… NEVER? — Democrats are reeling after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) torpedoed Joe Biden’s domestic agenda Sunday, saying he’d vote against the $1.7 trillion climate and social spending bill that Democrats have spent most of the year working on and tailoring to his demands. By another yardstick, Democrats could …

Iowa and New Hampshire appeared poised to lose their privileged places on the Democratic Party’s presidential primary calendar. But Democrats, including in the White House, suddenly have more pressing problems.

We tried to head him off,” a senior White House official told Playbook, but Manchin “refused to take a call from White House staff.” At Fox News’ Washington studio, Baier was hosting his first episode of “Fox News Sunday” since CHRIS WALLACE abruptly decamped for CNN+ last weekend.

Joe Manchin's rejection of the party's social spending bill is just the latest episode in a series of lofty goals it's failed to deliver on.

Afghanistan’s government lost trust in the United States because of the Trump administration’s negotiations with the Taliban and the Biden administration’s insistence on withdrawing its forces, a former Afghan official said Sunday in describing his government’s collapse earlier this year.

The West Wing accused Manchin of "a breach of his commitments to the president and the senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate," in a blistering statement Sunday.

The administration’s efforts to reform the visa program could put him at loggerheads with key factions of his own party.

The president has had successes. But a year in, his time in office has been defined by the disruptions, including on Sunday.

We tried to head him off,” a senior White House official told Playbook, but Manchin “refused to take a call from White House staff.” At Fox News’ Washington studio, Baier was hosting his first episode of “Fox News Sunday” since CHRIS WALLACE abruptly decamped for CNN+ last weekend.

Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) speaks during a July 27 House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill. | Jim Bourg/Pool via AP Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday said there was an enormous contrast between how the top Republican in the House and the top Republican in the …