Morning Jolt: Why Washington’s Democrats Are Weaker Than They Look

On the menu today: why Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have a lot less leverage in the current negotiations than progressives want to believe; an anti-Trump Republican has his radio show canceled; and laying out all the evidence pointing to a lab leak in Wuhan.

D.C. Democrats Don’t Quite Have the Power Progressives Think They Do

E. J. Dionne thinks that Republican opposition to forming a January 6 commission will spur senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to embrace "filibuster reform."

Manchin and Sinema definitely want to see Republicans get on board with the idea. They released a statement Tuesday which read:

The events of January 6th were horrific. We could never have imagined an attack on Congress and our Capitol at the hands of our own citizens. In the hours and days following the attack, Republican ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 27 2021 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 27 2021 Why Washington's Democrats Are Weaker Than They Look On the menu today: why Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have a lot less leverage in the current negotiations than progressives want to believe; an anti-Trump Republican has his radio show canceled; and laying out all the evidence pointing to a lab leak in Wuhan. D.C. Democrats Don’t Quite Have the Power Progressives Think They Do E. J. Dionne thinks that Republican opposition to forming a January 6 commission will spur senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to embrace "filibuster reform." Manchin and Sinema definitely want to see Republicans get on board with the idea. They released a statement Tuesday which read: The events of January 6th were horrific. We could never have imagined an attack on Congress and our Capitol at the hands of our own citizens. In the hours and days following the attack, Republican ...   READ MORE

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