Tag: Executive Branch

Biden Arrives in Japan to Meet with G-7 Leaders Amid Looming Debt Crisis at Home

HIROSHIMA, Japan—President Joe Biden arrived in Japan on Thursday to attend the three-day G-7 summit of the world’s top economic powers, leaving behind an intense debt ceiling negotiation with congressional leaders. Biden arrived in Hiroshima around 5 p.m. local time, where the Group of Seven (G-7) leaders will meet from May 19–21 to discuss a…


National Archives Admits Every Administration Since Reagan Has Mishandled Classified Documents

Mishandling of classified documents by recent presidents has been the norm, not the exception, according to newly declassified testimony from a House Intelligence Committee hearing with National Archives’ staff. William Bosanko, the agency’s chief operating officer, told Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) during the March 1 hearing that every “administration from Reagan forward[,] we have found…


Senate Votes Against Biden DHS Loosening Migrant Public Charge Standards

The Senate passed legislation on May 17 that could knock out the Biden administration’s new, looser rule for deciding whether migrants are likely to become public charges within America’s welfare state. Fifty lawmakers voted yea, while 47 voted nay. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was among those who backed it. The measure is a joint resolution…


Senate Votes Against Biden DHS Loosening Immigrant Public Charge Standards

The Senate approved legislation on May 17 that could nullify a loosened Biden administration rule for deciding whether immigrants to the United States are likely to become public charges. Fifty lawmakers, including two Democrats, voted “yea,” while 47 voted “nay.” The measure is a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress…


Biden Rejects Republican Proposal to Apply Work Requirements to Medicaid

President Joe Biden has signaled that he might accept work requirement expansions as part of the compromise with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling, so long as they don’t affect health care programs. “I’m not going to accept any work requirements that’s going to impact on medical health needs of people,” Biden told reporters on…


NIH Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Lab at Center of COVID Lab Leak Controversy

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has quietly removed the Wuhan lab suspected as a source of COVID-19 from its list of foreign facilities eligible to conduct animal experiments on taxpayer dollars. The name Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was still on the list as recently as April 23, was absent from the page last…


NIH Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Lab at Center of COVID Leak Controversy

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has quietly removed the Wuhan lab suspected as a source of COVID-19 from its list of foreign facilities eligible to conduct animal experiments on taxpayer dollars. The name Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which was still on the list as recently as April 23, was absent from the page…


LIVE 2:30 PM ET: Senate Banking Committee Hearing on ‘Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve’

The Senate Banking Committee conducts a hearing on Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve: Lessons and Opportunities for Reform at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 17.    …


LIVE NOW: Senate Banking Committee Hearing on ‘Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve’

The Senate Banking Committee conducts a hearing on Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve: Lessons and Opportunities for Reform at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 17.    …


Senate Banking Committee Hearing on ‘Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve’

The Senate Banking Committee conducts a hearing on Strengthening Accountability at the Federal Reserve: Lessons and Opportunities for Reform at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 17.    …