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The Associated reports: President Joe Biden and congressional leaders will likely resume talks on Tuesday at the White House over the debt limit, the President said Sunday, as the nation continues to edge closer to its legal borrowing authority with no agreement in sight. The meeting was initially supposed to be Friday, but was abruptly postponed so staff-level talks could …

Politico reports: President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he was “considering” the use of the 14th amendment as a means to circumvent the debt ceiling standoff he currently finds himself in with House Republicans. But he cast some doubt on whether it could work, saying it would “have to be litigated and in the meantime without an extension it’d still …

Via press release from the White House: Eight Americans — including children — were killed yesterday in the latest act of gun violence to devastate our nation. Jill and I are praying for their families and for others critically injured, and we are grateful to the first responders who acted quickly and courageously to save lives. Federal, state, and local …

The Washington Post reports: Throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden generally led Trump in head-to-head pre-election polls — and in November 2020, he won 51 percent of the popular vote to Trump’s 47 percent. Today, Biden is running behind the former president on the question of whom voters prefer for 2024. When asked who they would support in 2024, 44 percent …

The Hill reports: President Biden on Saturday congratulated King Charles III and Queen Camilla on their coronation, saying he is pleased that first lady Jill Biden could be present in the United Kingdom to join them for the ceremony. The president did not attend the event as U.S. presidents have traditionally not attended the coronations of British monarchs, but the …

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 …

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 …

CNBC reports: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday that President Joe Biden, 80, will likely die within five years and that his supporters would have to count on Vice President Kamala Harris if he were to win re-election next year. “He announced that he’s running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a …

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 …

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 …

The Associated Press reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said Tuesday that he would forgo another presidential bid of his own and instead endorse President Joe Biden’s reelection. The leading progressive, who was Biden’s chief rival in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, told The Associated Press that he would “do everything I can to see the president is reelected.” “The …

Axios reports: The Republican National Committee responded to President Biden’s re-election announcement Tuesday with an AI-generated video depicting a dystopian version of the future if he is re-elected. The video features AI-created images appearing to show Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris celebrating at an Election Day party, followed by a series of imagined reports about international and domestic crises …

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 …

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 …

Axios reports: President Biden said Monday that he plans on running for re-election in 2024, but he is “not prepared to announce it yet.” Biden has repeatedly said that he intends to run in 2024, but the timeline for an official announcement has gotten pushed, leaving many Democrats and potential staffers’ 2024 plans in limbo. Close allies now believe an …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Deadline reports: King Charles’s upcoming Coronation will be swimming with world leaders and dignitaries, but it has emerged that the US president will not be among them. British press reports this weekend that Joe Biden will not be attending the ceremony on May 6 in London, citing previous commitments. No US president in history has attended the Coronation of the …