Despite Congress passing a bipartisan gun reform bill in 2022, Mr. Biden said, "we know our work is not done." The president acknowledged Brandon Tsay, the 26-year-old who wrestled a gun away from the shooter in Monterey Park, California, who was one of the White House's guests at ...
Biden now hopes for a post-Labor Day reframing of the national conversation toward his twin domestic goals of passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill and pushing through a Democrats-only expansion of the social safety ne t. White House officials are eager to shift Biden’s public calendar towar...
At one point, he had trouble lifting a glass of water to his lips and stepping down a ramp, and he also made an unexplained trip to the hospital. By the end of his term, he was boasting about passing a cognitive test meant to detect signs of dementia. If he runs again in 2024, i...
While Democrats have a slim majority in the House of Representatives, the evenly split Senate -- with ties broken by Vice President Kamala Harris -- means that the opposition of any one Democrat could prevent a bill's passage. "The truth of the matter is, Biden is like a thir...
U.S. President Joe Biden underscored the passage of a bipartisaninfrastructure billand a strong economic recovery in his first State of the Union address on Tuesday, as he battles dismal approval ratings. Standing in the chamber of the House of Representatives, Biden thanked both Democrats a...
Biden says "history is watching" to Congress about passing foreign aid Mr. Biden pushed for the passage of his foreign aid, saying his message to Russian President Vladimir Putin is simple: "We will not walk away." He said Congress had to pass the national security bill. ...
James Lankford, the lead GOP negotiator in the border talks, has repeatedly urged lawmakers to refrain from passing final judgment on the bill until they receive legislative text and said some of the reports of its contents in conservative media are not accurate depictions of the bill. The ...
But Republicans would have as much trouble passing a nationwide abortion ban as Democrats would have passing a bill to codify Roe v. Wade. There are state laws banning the right to choose, criminalizing doctors, and forcing survivors of rape and incest to leave their states as well to get ...
asbeing more isolated than he had ever been, Biden could not withstand the push behind the scenes and in public. The blunt reality became a chorus of voices calling for the president to exit the race, like a boulder rolling down a mountain that only picked up momentum with each passing ...
It was hard to do, but it is true: Democrats and Republicans came together to pass thislarge infrastructure bill. Many progressives were frustrated, feeling it still wasn’t large enough. Most Republicans opposed it. But it’s here, and it was bipartisan. And that’s something. It is goi...