Tag Archives: White House

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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White House Won’t Be Paying For Twitter Verification

Axios reports: The White House will not pay to have its staff’s official Twitter profiles continue to be verified, according to guidance issued to staffers via an email obtained by Axios. Official White House staffers rely on their verified accounts to inform the public on behalf of the administration. Verification, combined with the designated Twitter profiles, helped to ensure the …

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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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White House To Disband COVID Response Team In May

The Washington Post reports: The White House will shut down its covid response team after the public health emergency ends in May, with some staffers already departing and national coordinator Ashish Jha likely to leave the administration once his team is disbanded. The move to disband the White House covid team, created in February 2020 and expanded to about three …

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White House Condemns Republican Silence After CPAC Speaker Issues Call For “Eradicating Transgenderism”

The Hill reports: The White House on Friday condemned what it called “shameful, hateful and dangerous” attacks on the LGBTQ community, and transgender people in particular, pointing to comments from a speaker at a major conservative conference last week and a barrage of bills introduced in GOP-led state legislatures. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke at Friday’s briefing about the rhetoric …

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White House Condemns Carlson’s “Offensive” Lies

Politico reports: The White House joined in widespread condemnation of Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, singling out the prime-time ratings king for his misleading portrayal of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In comments shared first with POLITICO, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed …

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WH To Make Abortion Rights Focal Point In 2024 Race

Reuters reports: The White House is jumping into state-level battles for women’s reproductive rights, lending legal and messaging advice to allies in states pushing restrictions as the Biden administration seeks to make abortion access a rallying cry in next year’s presidential election. By leaning on key local lawmakers and backing legislation to expand abortion rights, the White House is hoping …

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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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White House: Still No Consensus On Origin Of COVID

Politico reports: The U.S. government still has not reached a consensus on how the coronavirus pandemic started, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters Monday — despite news reports that the Energy Department has concluded the virus most likely leaked from a lab in China. “The intelligence community and the rest of the government is still looking at this,” …

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WH Condemns MTG’s “Sick, Vile” Call To Dissolve US

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call for a “national divorce” that separates “red states and blue states” has provoked fierce criticism from President Joe Biden’s White House. “Congresswoman Greene’s comments are sick, divisive, and alarming to hear from a member of the House Oversight and Homeland Security Committees,” said White House spokesperson Robyn Patterson, in a response …

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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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LIVE VIDEO: White House Briefing On Downed Objects

PBS reports: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a news briefing on Monday with National Security Council spokesman John Kirby after 3 more unidentified flying objects were shot down over the weekend. A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in …

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Biden Won’t Do Pre-Super Bowl Interview With Fox

CNN reports: The White House says President Joe Biden will not sit down for an interview with Fox before the Super Bowl, ending a strange back and forth between the Biden administration and the television network with which it frequently spars. Earlier Friday, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Fox had pulled the plug on the administration’s proposal to …

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Biden Unlikely To Do Super Bowl Interview With Fox

CNN reports: President Joe Biden has not yet committed to a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News, a person at the channel familiar with the matter said, a move that suggests the Democrat may buck the tradition of granting the network broadcasting the big game an interview. “We don’t have a formal no, but we are operating like it’s not …

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LIVE VIDEO: Biden Delivers State Of The Union Address

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden on Tuesday delivers his second State of the Union address since taking office. It’s also the first time he will address Congress since Republicans won control of the House. Biden is expected to use the speech, set for 9 p.m. ET, to make the case for his re-election, even though he has yet to …

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Biden To Push For Medicaid Expansion In SOTU Address

Axios reports: President Biden’s State of the Union address will include calls for insulin cost caps for privately insured patients and a renewed bid to close the Medicaid coverage gap in Republican-controlled states that haven’t accepted the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. The push to expand health coverage to millions of low-income people in 11 red states by closing the …

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Jill Biden’s SOTU Guests Include Parents Of Tyre Nichols

CNN reports: Paul Pelosi, Tyre Nichols’ parents, U2 star Bono, Monterey Park shooting hero Brandon Tsay, Ukraine’s ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova and a Holocaust survivor are among those headed to the US Capitol Tuesday evening where President Joe Biden is set to deliver his State of the Union address. Biden’s remarks will both touch on key themes of …

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No Classified Docs Found In Search Of Biden’s DE Home

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department conducted a search Wednesday of President Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., as part of its ongoing investigation of his retention of classified documents, but did not find any documents with classified markings, the president’s personal attorney said. The 3-and-a-half hour search took place Wednesday morning “in coordination and cooperation with the …

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