Category: President Biden

White House brands Freedom Caucus deficit plan as ‘tax breaks for the super wealthy’

The White House branded the House Freedom Caucus’ deficit plan as “tax breaks for the super wealthy and wasteful spending for special interests,” as the two sides continued to trade jabs amid an escalating debt ceiling battle. “MAGA House Republicans are proposing, if spread evenly across affected discretionary programs, at least a 20 [percent] across the board cut,” White House Communications Director Ben LaBolt said…

Youngkin says Biden should go to Ohio instead of Virginia to talk healthcare

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) said on Sunday that President Biden should visit the Ohio town reeling from the derailment of a train hauling toxic chemicals, rather than traveling to Virginia this week to speak about healthcare.  White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that Biden plans to use his speech at an event in Virginia Beach on Tuesday to draw a contrast between his…

Timeline of the Ohio train derailment response: from EPA’s initial response to Buttigieg visit

In the wake of a train derailment that spilled hazardous chemicals in an eastern Ohio town earlier this month, Republicans have slammed the Biden administration, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in particular, for its response to the incident. Buttigieg visited East Palestine this past Thursday, nearly three weeks after the train derailed near the Ohio town on Feb. 3. The town went through a subsequent…

WATCH: President Biden Talks Importance Of Knowing ALL U.S. History At White House Screening Of ‘Till’

Loading the participant… On Thursday (February 16), President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden invited what seemed to be over 100 visitors to the White House for a special Black History Month screening. The chosen movie was Till, a historic rendition of Emmett Till‘s 1955 lynching and his mom, Mamie Till-Mobley‘s relentless pursuit of fact and justice. The Shade Room was among the many visitors of…

Progressives push Biden to choose worker-friendly Labor secretary

Progressives need “middle class Joe Biden” to discover a worker-friendly Labor Secretary to substitute Marty Walsh — however it could take some elbow grease to get there.    Liberal lawmakers and advocates have appreciated Biden’s strategy to organized labor, seeing his embrace of unions as simply as gutsy and real as his willingness to condemn company profiteering on the expense of the country’s workforce.  With Walsh’s anticipated exit…

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Buttigieg Talks Chinese Balloon And Airline Meltdowns With Big Plans To Turn Things Around | TSR Newz

From hundreds of canceled flights to planes narrowly avoiding collisions on the runway, airways throughout the U.S. have been struggling in a serious way. In this TSR Newz exclusive interview White House transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke with The Shade Room‘s Justin Carter about what the Department of Transportation has in retailer to show issues round and what massive adjustments we will count on from…

Why the US waited to shoot down the China balloon

After a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon spent a number of days flying throughout the U.S. this week, the U.S. army shot down the aircraft off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday afternoon. President Biden said on Saturday that he had ordered the army to down the balloon “as soon as possible” after he was briefed on the matter on Wednesday.  The determination raised questions…

Rubio: DOJ response to request for information on classified documents ‘foolish’

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is dismissing as “silly” the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) response to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s request for information on classified documents discovered at President Biden’s and former President Trump’s residences. “Their answer is that it would imperil the investigation,” Rubio, the highest Republican member of the Intelligence panel, told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Monday evening. “It’s a silly letter. It’s…

McCarthy: ‘We won’t touch Medicare or Social Security’

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Thursday that House Republicans won’t goal Medicare or Social Security in their negotiations over the debt ceiling. “We won’t touch Medicare or Social Security,” he told Donald Trump Jr. in an interview in the Speaker’s workplace for Trump’s “Triggered” podcast. The comment comes as some House Republicans have been eyeing entitlement applications as a possible goal for trimming down…

Warner, Rubio push for Intelligence Committee access to Biden, Trump documents

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the main members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, are pushing for their panel to achieve access to the categorized documents discovered at President Biden’s and former President Trump’s residences over the last year. “Our job is not to figure out if somebody mishandled those [documents],” Warner told CBS News in an interview alongside Rubio, set to air on…

White House releases Biden’s Thanksgiving Day menu

President Biden loved all of the Thanksgiving classics — turkey, stuffing, gravy, pies — and his favourite ice cream on the first household’s vacation dinner in Nantucket, Mass., on Thursday. The Bidens’s menu, particulars of which have been publicly launched Thursday evening, got here full with a thyme-roasted turkey, sherry gravy, traditional stuffing, cranberry relish and candy potatoes. The first household additionally loved shrimp cocktails,…

Some colleges are so desperate for new students that they’re offering slots to high schoolers who may not have even...

high Getty Images Colleges nationwide are struggling to meet enrollment objectives as extra younger individuals forgo a level Some have responded by making admissions provides to students who by no means formally utilized. The price of a faculty training has led many younger Americans to discover different choices. Just like elevating wages to entice workers, universities are getting artistic as they face shortages of their…

Biden’s student-debt relief plans aren’t enough to restore the value of a college degree as more young people decide to...

President Joe Biden speaks about student-loan-debt forgiveness at the White House on August 24. AP Photo/Evan Vucci College enrollment has fallen in recent times, half of a broader development over the previous decade. High tuition and broad availability of jobs that do not require levels are protecting college students out. President Joe Biden’s student-debt reforms might make college more engaging to some however not all. …