Yes, the economic news has been good — and Biden has several policy successes just this week alone. The White House announced that the Inflation Reduction Act reduced prices on 64 more drugs this quarter. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the number of uninsured people in...
Part of what makes the Bidens’ right-out-of-the-gate successes so extraordinary is that they seem to have perfectly read the room: We have been through this enormous, collective trauma, and here’s a calm, experienced, empathetic president, and here’s a first lady who is driven, tireles...
Though Biden promised her weekly lunches when she took the job, the meetings have beeninconsistent, an indication that Biden has often leaned more on longtime aides than on his deputy. But if she were to run for president, she could campaign on the administration’s legislativ...
In 1987, former President Richard Nixon had a late life reflection on what went right and wrong in his long and checkered political career. He had this to say about presidential debates, "In the television age, a candidate's appearance and style cou...
He will likely outline his successes to date from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to management of the coronavirus pandemic to his handling of the economy with recent unemployment numbers showing a nearly 54-year record low. —Emma Kinery ...
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the Catholic Archbishop of Washington, began the national Covid-19 memorial service by grieving more than 400,000 Americans who have died in the coronavirus pandemic so far. “We turn to the Lord of all to receive these, our sisters and brothers into eternal peace ...
JB Pritzker pitched his administrative successes, took digs at Donald Trump and gave a shout-out to Illinois’ “presidential pedigree,” in a classic convention speech that celebrated Kamala Harris, who spent part of her youth in the state. “We claim her, too,” Pritzker said aft...
British Prime Minster Rishi Sunak’s Conservative party is about to be trounced in UK elections on July 4, and French President Emmanuel Macron has called snap parliamentary elections for June 30, following far-right successes in the European vote. Japan’s Fumio Kishida is battling a scandal ...
The economic team is among the most critical pieces of the new administration, whose successes or failures will play a large role in determining the course of the Biden presidency. Biden is also still set to name the leader of the National Economic Council, officials said, as well as United...
If a Biden win brings a new Democratic majority to the Senate, it will be the influence of conservative Democratic senators — not Republicans and former-Republicans who joined Democrats in opposing Trump — that shape the breadth and reach of his policy successes in 2021. Besides — Biden ...