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Members of Congress’ young progressive bloc are now grappling with one career-threatening problem or another, including personal controversies, criminal investigations and serious primary challenges.

Former governor of Ogun State and senator representing Ogun Central, Ibikunle Amosun, has affirmed that President Muhammadu Buhari has done more good for

That could happen if you don't pass that. and what might happen if you goes too far here, mcconnell, is he may be tempting and taunting some democrats who weren't previously willing to forgo the filibuster. he might tempt them to make an exception in this case. once you do that and once you open the door to doing that and it's a thing that occurs in politics, then it might get easier to use it in other things and democrats may discover that they finally have the will to use this weapon and then pass lots of other things. >> it would be interesting if they got there, and this idea of exceptions...

Progressives by delaying the infrastructure vote may have caused real damage with the moderate wing. saturday, senator kyrsten sinema one of the senate holdouts on the social policy bill released a scathing statement calling the move to delay infrastructure, quote, inexcusable and accused democratic leaders of eroding trust within the party. now the question will be whether there is enough trust left for president biden to make significant cuts to his cornerstone legislation to win support from moderate holdouts without losing votes from the powerful progressive bloc. joining me is the chair o...

Without losing votes from the powerful progressive bloc. joining me is the chair of the house progressive caucus pramila jayapal. thank you so much for joining me. it was an extraordinary week. i have covered washington for a long time and this is the first time i have seen progressives have the numbers and the power and the will to use that power to hold the line on the issues that you're pushing. what do you think this week says about the progressive wing of the democratic party? >> it is great to see you and to be with you. what i think is happening right now is progressives have helped pus...