Category: biden administration

Capitol Report (May 20): Testimony: Clinton Approved Giving Allegations to Reporter; Expert Says Power Blackouts Are Unlikely

In former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, a testimony revealed Clinton approved the plan to give allegations against Trump to the media ahead of the 2016 election. President Joe Biden is in South Korea. The visit comes as China issues threats and North Korea prepares for missile tests. What could come next? As…


White House Designates Elon Musk ‘Anti-Labor Billionaire’

The administration of President Joe Biden has responded to criticism from Elon Musk, designating the Tesla CEO and prospective Twitter owner as an “anti-labor billionaire” while touting Biden’s ostensible pro-labor credentials. During a recent appearance on the “All-In Podcast,” Musk said that Biden “doesn’t seem to get a lot done,” in contrast to the Trump…


Biden Invokes Defense Production Act to Accelerate Domestic Production of Baby Formula

President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) on Wednesday to accelerate the production of U.S.-made infant formula amid a nationwide shortage of this critical food and reports of infant deaths resulting from the shortage. In a statement published late Wednesday, the White House announced that the DPA would require infant formula manufacturers’ ingredient…


Labor Could Have Leaked AUKUS If Informed About It Earlier, Aussie PM Warns

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pushed back at claims that Australia broke trust with the U.S. when it delayed informing Labor about the AUKUS negotiations and argued that Labor could leak the information due to its relationship with China. It comes after reports emerged on Saturday that the Biden administration has entrusted the Liberal prime…


Rep. Steube Questions Biden Admin’s Ukraine Funding Amid Skyrocketing Inflation, Border Crisis in US

The Biden administration should take into consideration pressing issues facing Americans like rising inflation, Chinese aggression, and the ongoing border crisis when sending money to support Ukraine during its conflict with Russia, according to Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.). Steube’s comments come after House lawmakers on Tuesday approved a new $40 billion aid package for Ukraine in an another…


Back to the Burqa—It’s Biden’s Taliban Now

Commentary Less than a year since the chaotic U.S. departure from Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021, the Taliban, despite promises to the contrary, have returned to being, well, the Taliban. That means misogyny on an almost incomprehensible scale. The burqa is back, accompanied by women locked in their homes. For the most part, forget about…


Biden Strategy Pushing US Nuclear Deterrence ‘Beyond Its Usefulness’: Experts

The Biden administration’s nuclear policies and budget are too ambiguous or otherwise wide reaching to provide the type of conflict deterrence that is expected of them, according to several experts. “How are you going to contain Russia and China?” said Harlan Ullman, a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. “The policy…


God Does Bless America

Commentary The consequences for the country of the Biden administration’s cascade of blunders in every policy area are serious, and the vacuum created in the world by the evaporation of American leadership is dangerous and worrisome. But no one who felt the agonies of the Trump–Russia collusion fraud and the fatuous Trump impeachment trials, and…


14 AGs Sue Biden Administration Over Changing Asylum Policy

Fourteen attorneys general, led by Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri, have sued the Biden administration for altering immigration policies established by Congress related to the immigration asylum process. They sued the same day Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a separate lawsuit against the administration in federal court in Texas over the same policy. Attorneys general…


FDA Proposes Ban on Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored Cigars

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is suggesting a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The federal agency said in a statement Thursday that the proposed new product standards are “based on clear science” and that they will “save lives,” adding that the new rules would not be enforced on individual menthol smokers, but…