News Roundup: Manchin is praying, ninjas are expensive, and Republicans are still obstructing

In the news today: Joe Manchin is now praying that Republicans won’t show what a fool he’s been for continuing to claim that his friends across the aisle really, really want to be bipartisan. The ongoing clown show in Arizona—aka the election “audit” by the Cyber Ninjas—could end up costing Maricopa County millions of dollars. Republicans still have not come up with an infrastructure plan, and as has long been clear, Republicans have no intention of presenting such a plan, they just want to block anything that President Biden or the Democrats propose. And while the COVID-19 numbers in the United States continue to improve, that is not the case in much of the world.

Here’s some of what you may have missed: 

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