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Sen. Joe Manchin suggests Child Tax Credit payments would be used to buy drugs
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., privately questioned whether parents would misuse Child Tax Credit payments to buy drugs, according to three sources familiar wi...
Rachel Scott and Benjamin Siegel, ABC News Dec 21, 2021

Manchin says he's a 'no' on Biden's Build Back Better social spending plan
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., delivered a potentially fatal blow to President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill on Fox News Sunday, when he announced that he ...
Molly Nagle and Allison Pecorin, ABC News Dec 19, 2021

Kinzinger: It's 'possible' some GOP colleagues are responsible for Jan. 6 attack
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday "it’s possible" some of his GOP colleagues in Congress are responsible for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol but added he's not ready ...
Julia Cherner, ABC News Dec 19, 2021

Students go on hunger strike to push for voting rights
Courtesy Shana Gallagher(WASHINGTON) -- A hunger strike that started in Phoenix has made its way to the nation's capital. Students from different parts of the U.S. have gathered outside the White...
Hannah Demissie, ABC News Dec 19, 2021

'Stop the Steal' organizer Ali Alexander told Jan. 6 committee about contacts with Republican lawmakers
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ali Alexander, the conservative activist behind the "Stop the Steal" movement, recently told congressional investigators that he had communicated with ...
Benjamin Siegel, ABC News Dec 19, 2021

Democrats leave for the holidays with much unfinished business
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats are leaving Washington for the holidays having fallen short on a slew of President Joe Biden's top domestic priorities and staring down the barrel...
Allison Pecorin, Trish Turner, ABC News Dec 17, 2021

Biden demands action on voting rights at South Carolina State University commencement
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday dug into Republican opposition to advancing federal voting rights legislation during a commencement address at Sou...
Oren Oppenheim, Justin Gomez, ABC News Dec 17, 2021

Trump ally Roger Stone invokes 5th Amendment in appearance before Jan. 6 committee
Ting Shen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Roger Stone, longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, appeared Friday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, where h...
Benjamin Siegel, Soo Rin Kim, ABC News Dec 17, 2021

Supreme Court deals another blow to Texas abortion providers
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has dealt another blow to Texas abortion providers waging war against SB8 in order to restore a constituti...
Devin Dwyer, ABC News Dec 16, 2021

FDA lifts restriction on abortion pill, permanently allowing delivery by mail
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday permanently lifted its restriction on the abortion pill mifepristone that requir...
Anne Flaherty, ABC News Dec 16, 2021
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