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But it isn’t just the impasse and high-stakes; it’s that this drama is playing out against the backdrop of a debt limit fight with Republicans and a looming government shutdown. The Biden administration insists that there has been progress in the negotiations. But for the Democrats trying...
adults in early October 2024, around 51 percent of the respondents held an unfavorable opinion of Democratic President Joe Biden, with 11 percent having a somewhat unfavorable and 40 percent a very unfavorable opinion. This is compared to 44 percent of respondents who had either a very favorable...
Joe Biden The latest news, analysis, and features about Joe Biden, the 46th president of the USPelosi says Democrats ‘pretty much there’ on $2 trillion social spending Bill Treasury secretary Janet Yellen says she anticipates no problems in funding the Bill...
Nancy Pelosi was able to govern with a narrow majority but Republicans could not, failing to pass a budget and relying upon Democratic votes to bail them out to prevent a government shutdown. Kevin McCarthy then bad-mouthed the Democrats that had saved him, dooming his fate. ...
As the newest American political analyst on Chinese national television, I’ve been asked to explain the U.S. government shutdown and default showdown. It’s not easy. How do you explain the farce that Washington has become? Lawmakers shutting down the government because of an issue not dire...
“crossed the aisle” to pass bipartisan policy. Polling shows that Americans tend to favor this kind of compromise. Even today's increasingly divided Congress has passed bipartisan legislation reopening the government after the December 2018–January 2019 shutdown, sanctioning Russia for election ...
“crossed the aisle” to pass bipartisan policy. Polling shows that Americans tend to favor this kind of compromise. Even today's increasingly divided Congress has passed bipartisan legislation reopening the government after the December 2018–January 2019 shutdown, sanctioning Russia for election ...
Multiple news organizations have declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. CNN, Fox News, NBC News, CBS News and ABC News called Pennsylvania for Biden on Saturday. The state victory brought the Democratic candidate over the 270 electoral votes needed ...
“The key for Biden never was what he was going to say publicly,” says Fred Wertheimer, founder and president of the clean-government group Democracy 21. “The key was what he was going to do in the endgame.” But the White House kept its focus on Build Back Better even as the ...