National Politics

By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large On Thursday, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin made clear how much he was willing to spend on a budget bill being pushed by President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats in Congress: $1.5 trillion. “I’ve never been a liberal in any way, shape or form,” Manchin told a group

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Refugee resettlement agencies are racing to find housing for the approximately 53,000 Afghans on military bases in the United States who will eventually be resettled in the country, but the groups are facing a strained — and expensive — housing market. Every year, refugee agencies find houses or apartments for refugees

By Alex Marquardt and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The suicide rate among active duty service members in the US military increased by 41.4% in the five years from 2015 to 2020, according to data provided in the annual report from the Department of Defense on suicide in the military. The suicide rate among active duty service

By Tierney Sneed The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit grappled on Thursday with the question of whether to issue a significant decision about the due process rights of Guantanamo detainees — a case that has put the Biden administration on complicated footing as the President has looked for ways to finally close

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A group of public school teachers in New York asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block the New York City vaccine mandate that is set to go into effect Friday afternoon. In court papers, lawyers for the teachers say that New York City, as well as

By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday released guidelines about who is to be prioritized for immigration enforcement, following up on a set of interim guidance released early in the Biden administration. The department is returning to Obama-era immigration enforcement measures based on a priority system instead of

By Tami Luhby, CNN Nearly 50 million senior citizens could face delays in their Social Security payments if Congress does not suspend or raise the debt ceiling in the coming weeks, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers Thursday. “It would be catastrophic for the economy and for individual families,” Yellen said at a House Financial

By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju, Ali Zaslav and Morgan Rimmer, CNN Moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia made clear Thursday that $1.5 trillion was the price tag he was willing to settle on for his party’s plan to expand the social safety net, putting him $2 trillion away from the lowest number progressive

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Embattled student loan servicer Navient announced this week that it is getting out of the federal student loan business, pending government approval. If it gets the authorization, about 6 million loan borrowers will be sending their monthly payments to a new servicer. Navient plans to transfer those loans to Maximus, a

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Rep. Cori Bush on Thursday shared her personal experience of how she was raped as a teenager, became pregnant and chose to get an abortion. It was one of the first times that Bush, a Missouri Democrat, has spoken publicly about it and her decision to have an abortion. Bush’s comments

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden faced a reckoning Thursday after House Democratic leaders, facing a shortfall of support, put off plans to vote on a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan amid sour disagreements over the size and scope of his sweeping domestic agenda. The delayed vote does not mean the end of Biden’s quest to

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case concerning Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2018 campaign and consider regulations that limit money that committees can raise after the election to reimburse loans made before the election. A lower court ruled in favor of Cruz, holding that a loan-repayment restriction