Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Joe Biden proudly boasts of how he persuaded Republicans in 2009 to cross the political divide and vote for President Obama’s economic recovery plan.He doesn’t often mention he only got three or that, in the years since, one has died, one has quit Congress and the third, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, is in danger of losing her seat this fall.Even for a consummate dealmaker like Biden, the kind of pragmatic Republicans he’s dealt with in the past are increasingly hard to find.Biden has put his ability to forge compromises at the center...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Joe Biden proudly boasts of how he persuaded Republicans in 2009 to cross the political divide and vote for President Obama’s economic recovery plan.He doesn’t often mention he only got three or that, in the years since, one has died, one has quit Congress and the third, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, is in danger of losing her seat this fall.Even for a consummate dealmaker like Biden, the kind of pragmatic Republicans he’s dealt with in the past are increasingly hard to find.Biden has put his ability to forge compromises at the center...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In a peace offering to progressives a day after Sen. Bernie Sanders , Joe Biden announced support Thursday for an expansion of Medicare and education policies that move closer to his former rival’s agenda.Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, proposed expanding government health insurance coverage by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 60. The former vice president also called for forgiving college debt for low- and middle-income borrowers at public colleges and universities as well as at...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In a peace offering to progressives a day after Sen. Bernie Sanders , Joe Biden announced support Thursday for an expansion of Medicare and education policies that move closer to his former rival’s agenda.Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, proposed expanding government health insurance coverage by lowering the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 60. The former vice president also called for forgiving college debt for low- and middle-income borrowers at public colleges and universities as well as at...WW…