Category: Biden

GOP Governor Complains Of Misinformation Leading to Lower Vaccination Rates While Fellow Republican Stoke Falsehoods

GOP Governor Complains Of Misinformation Leading to Lower Vaccination Rates While Fellow Republican Stoke Falsehoods

The Republican governor of Arkansas is speaking up about misinformation contributing to a lower rate of vaccination against COVID-19. It's Gov Asa Hutchinson's fellow Republicans who are typically spreading that misinformation, however.
Former NSC Official: Putin Has ‘Got To Show Something Out Of’ Meeting with Biden

Former NSC Official: Putin Has ‘Got To Show Something Out Of’ Meeting with Biden

Now that Joe Biden's first face-to-face encounter with Russian leader Vladimir Putin since becoming president of the United States is in the history books, the best way to determine whether it was all for show, or if it will lead to substantive diplomatic breakthroughs, will all come down to what happens next, according to a prominent former top official with the White House National Security Council (NSC).
Markey: ‘I Say No Deal’ If GOP Won’t Put Climate Provisions in Infrastructure

Markey: ‘I Say No Deal’ If GOP Won’t Put Climate Provisions in Infrastructure

Another Democratic lawmaker has drawn a line in the sand as it relates to compromise with Republicans on President Biden's once-in-a-generation American Jobs Plan infrastructure initiative.
Psaki: I Don’t Know if Anything We Do in the White House Is Boring

Psaki: I Don’t Know if Anything We Do in the White House Is Boring

If you're one of those who say that President Biden and his White House are, well, a bit boring -- press secretary Jen Psaki would beg to differ.
Energy Sec. Granholm on Infrastructure Negotiations: ’We Cannot Sit And Negotiate Forever’

Energy Sec. Granholm on Infrastructure Negotiations: ’We Cannot Sit And Negotiate Forever’

President Biden's been negotiating with Senate Republicans in an attempt to win votes for his once-in-a-generation American Jobs Plan infrastructure initiative, but time -- and the president's patience -- are growing short, according to a member of Biden's Cabinet.
For Haitians, Biden Administration Overturns Another Trump Decision

For Haitians, Biden Administration Overturns Another Trump Decision

The Biden administration has instituted a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This new TPS designation enables Haitian nationals -- and individuals without nationality who last resided in Haiti --currently residing in the United States as of May 21, to file initial applications for TPS, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.
Schumer Moves Innovation Bill, Even As Biden Pares Infrastructure Plan

Schumer Moves Innovation Bill, Even As Biden Pares Infrastructure Plan

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) this week filed an updated and enhanced version of a bipartisan innovation bill, even as President Biden released a pared-down, compromise revision of his expansive infrastructure plan.
With The Mideast On Fire, It’s Time For Biden’s Diplomacy

With The Mideast On Fire, It’s Time For Biden’s Diplomacy

With hundreds dead, thousands wounded and some 34,000 Palestinians estimated to have been displaced as a result of the new fighting, Biden must step in personally, bring the leadership of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas to the United States and put all of that foreign policy acumen to work as an honest broker to establish a lasting solution based in peace -- and justice.
Statehood Momentum: DC, Puerto Rico Will Be States ‘By the End of This Decade’

Statehood Momentum: DC, Puerto Rico Will Be States ‘By the End of This Decade’

While President Biden and its other allies won't give up on granting Washington DC statehood, at least one political observer believes that the political momentum is there to bring in both DC and Puerto Rico as the newest US states by the end of the decade.
‘It’s Time to Bring Our Troops Home’

‘It’s Time to Bring Our Troops Home’

President Biden has announced that he is ordering the full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, in time for the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, which began the US invasion and its longest war in that fraught Middle Eastern nation.