The Latest Breaking News from Joe Manchin

The centrist Democrat senator has repeatedly stood in the way of the president’s most ambitious legislative aspirations and derailed fragile negotiations

WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the Biden administration can and should still move ahead with important legislation that will help lower costs for American consumers, despite the blow to a wider fiscal package from Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

WASHINGTON — Nearly a year ago, Sen. Joe Manchin wrote Fed Chair Jerome Powell to raise alarm that the central bank’s policies would overheat the economy, a fixation that made the West Virginia Democrat an outlier in his party.

President Joe Biden is promising “strong executive action” to combat climate change, despite setbacks that have restricted his ability to regulate carbon emissions and boost clean energy such as wind and solar power