Joe Biden

Biden Calls Congress Leaders For Debt Ceiling Meeting

Axios reports: President Biden has called the four House and Senate leaders proposing a May 9 meeting on the debt ceiling. The Department of the Treasury and Congressional Budget Office said Monday the U.S. may stop being able to pay off its debts as soon as early June – a startlingly short timeline to reach a resolution. Senate Majority Leader …

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Sanders: Biden Could Win In A Landslide [VIDEO]

From Sen. Bernie Sanders’ interview today on CNN: DANA BASH: Senator, President Biden announced his campaign officially for reelection this week. He would be 86 years old by the end of his second term. You’re one year older than President Biden. Is his age something that voters should consider in 2024? BERNIE SANDERS: Well, I think, when you look at …

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Biden Issues Proclamation Marking 1950s “Lavender Scare,” Which Cost LGBTQ Federal Workers Their Jobs

Via press release from the White House: Our Nation has made tremendous progress in advancing the cause of equality for LGBTQI+ Americans. To keep building on that progress, we must reflect honestly on the darkest chapters of our story and on how far we have come. Seventy years ago, as the Cold War set in, President Eisenhower signed an Executive …

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Biden Hits “MAGA Republicans” In First Campaign Ad

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign is doubling down on its opening message warning that Americans’ freedoms are under attack by so-called “MAGA Republicans” with its first television ad of the nascent 2024 race. The seven-figure ad campaign will bring an adaptation of the president’s campaign kickoff video to the airwaves in key states, saying the president “has …

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Joe Biden Officially Announces Reelection Bid [VIDEO]

The Washington Post reports: President Biden officially announced his bid for reelection Tuesday morning, saying in a solemn launch video that he wanted to “finish the job” he started when the country was racked by a deadly pandemic, a reeling economy and a teetering democracy. Claiming that his presidency has pulled the country back from the brink on all those …

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Biden Expected To Launch Reelection Bid Next Week

The Washington Post reports: President Biden and his team are preparing to announce his reelection campaign next week, with aides finalizing plans to release a video for the president to officially launch his campaign, according to three people briefed on the plans. Biden and his aides have targeted Tuesday for the release of the video to coincide with the four-year …

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Biden To Enlist “Influencers” In 2024 Digital Strategy

Axios reports: President Biden’s not-yet-official bid for re-election will lean on hundreds of social media “influencers” who will tout Biden’s record — and soon may have their own briefing room at the White House, Axios has learned. The move aims to boost Biden’s standing among young voters who are crucial to Democrats’ success in elections — and to potentially counter …

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Biden Condemns “Shocking” Expulsion Of TN Dems

Via press release from the White House: Last week, three more students and three school officials were gunned down in yet another tragic mass shooting in Nashville. On Monday, 7,000 Tennesseans, many of them students, marched to their state capitol to call on their lawmakers to take action and keep them safe. Instead, state Republican lawmakers called votes today to …

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Biden Vetoes Bill That Would Gut EPA Clean Water Rules

The Associated Press reports: Defending his administration’s actions on clean water, President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a congressional resolution that would have overturned protections for the nation’s waterways that Republicans have criticized as overly intrusive. Republicans — and some Democrats — targeted an Environmental Protection Agency rule protecting thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, labeling it an …

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Axios: Biden May Not Announce For 2024 Until The Fall

Axios reports: President Biden’s advisers and close allies don’t expect him to announce a run for re-election any time soon — and some now believe it could come as late as July, or perhaps even the fall. Biden’s waiting game has left many ambitious Democrats and would-be staffers with their 2024 plans on hold. They initially thought Biden would launch …

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Biden Marks Transgender Day Of Visibility, Condemns “MAGA Extremists” For “Hateful” Attacks On Trans Youth

CNN reports: President Joe Biden is using International Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday to sharply criticize acts of violence and discrimination against Americans who identify as trans and nonbinary, zeroing in on the growing number of Republican-led bills targeting trans youth. Biden acknowledged “a wave of discriminatory state laws” aimed at trans Americans, squarely blaming “MAGA extremists” for “advancing …

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Biden Declares Emergency After Deadly MS Tornado

CBS News reports: President Joe Biden early Sunday issued an emergency declaration for Mississippi, making federal funding available to Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe and Sharkey counties, the areas hardest hit Friday night by a deadly tornado that ripped through the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of the U.S. CBS News has confirmed at least 26 people were killed in …

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House Republicans Fail To Override Biden’s First Veto

The Hill reports: The Republican-led House on Thursday failed to override President Biden’s first veto, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to revive a resolution targeting an administration rule related to ESG investing, which is investing that takes environmental and social factors into account. The chamber voted 219-200, with one Democrat voting with every Republican in favor of overriding …

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Biden Vetoes “Anti-Woke” Retirement Investment Rule

CNN reports: President Joe Biden issued the first veto of his presidency Monday on a resolution to overturn a retirement investment rule that allows managers of retirement funds to consider the impact of climate change and other environmental, social and governance factors when picking investments. Republican lawmakers led the push to pass the resolution through Congress, arguing the rule is …

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Biden To Sign New Executive Order On Gun Violence

The Washington Post reports: President Biden on Tuesday, during a visit to Monterey Park, Calif., where 11 were shot dead earlier this year, is planning to sign an executive order that aims to increase the number of background checks before firearms sales. The order also asks his Cabinet to develop a proposal for how the federal government can better assist …

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Biden: “Rest Assured That US Banking System Is Safe”

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden said Monday that Americans should “rest assured” after his administration acted to ease uncertainties about the banking system in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week, the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The president spoke about the actions taken by his administration to give Americans confidence that the banking …

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Biden Selects Livery Design For Next Air Force One

Via press release from the United States Air Force: President of the United States Joe Biden selected the livery design for the “Next Air Force One,” VC-25B, a design that will closely resemble the livery of the current Air Force One, VC-25A, while also modernizing for the 21st century. While accounting for the VC-25B’s larger 747-8i aircraft, the VC-25B livery …

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Skin Cancer Lesion Removed From Biden’s Chest

The Associated Press reports: A skin lesion removed from President Joe Biden’s chest last month was a basal cell carcinoma — a common form of skin cancer — his doctor said Friday, adding that no further treatment was required. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House doctor who has served as Biden’s longtime physician, said “all cancerous tissue was successfully removed” …

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Biden Roasts MTG For Lying About Fentanyl Deaths

Mediaite reports: President Joe Biden responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) claim he was responsible for deadly fentanyl overdoses that occurred during the Trump administration. The president then suggested that the more public exposure Greene’s antics get, the more Republicans will run toward Democrats. Biden recounted Greene blaming him for the fentanyl deaths. “The interesting thing is, that fentanyl …

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Annual Physical Shows Biden To Be “Healthy, Vigorous”

The Washington Post reports: President Biden remains “a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency,” his physician wrote in a memo released hours after the president underwent a routine annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning. Kevin O’Connor — who has been Biden’s primary care doctor since 2009 …

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