Congress faces a crucial budget deadline in four days, and there is still no obvious way to prevent a partial government shutdown at the last day of the week The package has not yet been unveiled, despite lawmakers’ hopes to share the language of a bipartisan spending agreement Sunday evening. There are still high-level policy...
The US Army has been forced to pay for hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Ukraine’s conflict against Russia over the last few months as financing for the country faces an uncertain future in Congress. Army officials are growing more and more concerned that, in the absence of new funding, they will have...
Republicans’ main effort to impeach President Joe Biden was thwarted after Special Counsel David Weiss accused a former FBI informant of lying about the president’s and his son Hunter Biden’s participation in financial transactions with the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings. The 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov is accused of fabricating records and lying to the FBI....
As part of a revised plan, after the Supreme Court rejected the first scheme, the Biden administration expanded the scope of its most recent proposal for a comprehensive student debt forgiveness program on Thursday to students meeting additional financial hardship requirements. The extension would cover borrowers who owe more than they originally borrowed, those whose...
Biden alleges that Trump is caving in to Putin by inciting Russia to attack NATO members who fail to fulfill their commitments. After Donald Trump said he would back Russia’s invasion of countries who break their NATO pledges, President Joe Biden slammed the former president on Tuesday, accusing him of giving in to Vladimir Putin....
In the Democratic primary in South Carolina on Saturday, President Joe Biden hopes to win and formally begin his party’s nomination process easily. This victory will validate a new lineup he supported to better empower Black voters, who helped revitalize his 2020 campaign. Against self-help author Marianne Williamson and Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips, Biden is...
Amid mounting irritation in Washington about Israel’s course during its Gaza conflict, Joe Biden has issued an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been attacking Palestinians. Four people are initially subject to financial penalties and visa restrictions under the order, and US officials stated they were considering whether to prosecute...
Joe Biden leads Trump but falls behind Haley in hypothetical matchups, according to new poll. A new national survey indicates that in what is expected to be a rerun of the November election, President Joe Biden leads former President Donald Trump by six points. But in a field of many candidates for the general election,...
Since the first day of 2024, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized. Although Pentagon authorities have not stated when he would be released, they have also refrained from disclosing the reason for his hospitalization. Austin was brought to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday due to problems he had from...
Up until recently, Democrats’ greatest fear regarding the 2024 youth vote was that voters in the millennial and Gen-Z generations might not turn out in large enough numbers to reelect Joe Biden because they were so dissatisfied with our aging president. The 2024 presidential race shouldn’t be particularly close. Joe Biden’s opponent, Donald Trump, is...