Category: Democrats

Biden 2024: Joe 2.0

Joe Biden has formally announced his reelection campaign for the presidency in 2024. His track record includes record inflation, botched foreign policy, and the series of physical and mental blunders that plague nearly every public appearance. What would “Joe 2.0” mean for America? Seventy percent of Americans do not think Biden should run for president…


Democrats Could Withhold Funds to Compel Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Rules

Senate Democrats want the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt stricter guidelines for disclosing their income sources and potential conflicts of interest, and at least 14 Democratic senators see withholding funds from the court as a way to get their demands. In a March 31 letter (pdf) to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.),…


The Many Hoodies of Sen. John Fetterman

Wearing wrinkled basketball shorts and a burgundy Carhartt hoodie, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) met on May 3 with Julie Su, President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of labor. “We need a secretary of labor who will fight for workers. It was an honor to meet with Acting Labor Secretary Su,” Fetterman said in a statement….


Biden’s Executive Assistant Didn’t Identify Classified Docs While Packing Office: House Democrats

A May 3 Democratic memo alleges that House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) distorted comments from an interview with Joe Biden’s executive assistant, Kathy Chung, from his time as vice president, claiming that Comer “promoted false, xenophobic, and racist conspiracy theories” about Chung from her testimony to the committee last month. In addition, portions of…


GOP House Members Sound Alarm on VA Failing to Provide Vets Adequate Brain Injury Exams

Three members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, themselves veterans, have urged the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to investigate what they are calling troubling allegations that a neurologist at the Tomah VA Medical Center in Wisconsin may have failed over an 18-year period to provide hundreds of veterans with thorough and adequate compensation…


Senate Votes to Undo Freeze on Chinese Solar Tariffs, Setting Up Showdown with Biden

The Senate narrowly advanced a joint resolution reversing the Biden administration’s emergency shield against tariffs for some Chinese-made solar panels. Now the ball’s in President Joe Biden’s court. The White House has said he will veto the joint resolution, warning the measure would “create deep uncertainty for jobs and investments in the solar supply chain…


DOE: Reinstating ’22 Budget Would Be ‘Catastrophic’ for Biden’s ‘Green Energy’ Plans

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) maintains scaling its $52 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request back to FY22 funding levels, as House Republicans are proposing, would raise costs for consumers, taxpayers, and industry while derailing momentum in “re-shoring” domestic manufacturing capacity. “That would be absolutely catastrophic at this critical moment,” DOE Deputy Secretary…


NYC Mayor Eric Adams Criticizes White House for Border Crisis

Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams said President Joe Biden’s administration is partly to blame for the country’s struggles to handle asylum seekers and illegal border crossers attempting to enter the United States. Adams fielded questions about America’s immigration and border security policies during a Tuesday press conference. During the press conference, reporters asked…


LIVE 2 PM ET: Senate GOP Hold Press Conference on Democrats’ Refusal to Negotiate on Debt Ceiling

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and other Republican senators hold a press conference at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 3 to discuss the Democrats’ failure to negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling. …


Senate GOP Hold Press Conference on Democrats’ Refusal to Negotiate on Debt Ceiling

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and other Republican senators hold a press conference at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 3 to discuss the Democrats’ failure to negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling. …