'A recipe for absolute destruction': Democrats scramble to avoid electoral blowback after Manchin halts Biden agenda
CNN
It's exactly the scenario Democrats had worked for months to avoid -- but now find themselves confronting.
Vulnerable members were forced to cast a tough vote in an already daunting election year. And now, they are left with nothing to show for it.
With Sen. Joe Manchin effectively wielding a veto over President Joe Biden's agenda, House Democrats are now fuming at the prospects that their vote last month to pass the Build Back Better bill will be all for naught, having made scores of promises to voters only to have them all go unfulfilled.
President Joe Biden has given permission to Ukraine to strike inside Russian territory with American munitions, though he has restricted their use so Kyiv can only hit targets over the border close to Kharkiv after Russia made significant advances around the city in the northeastern part of the country close to the Russian border, two US officials told CNN.