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ANALYSIS: Will Trump, Biden Meet Again in 2024?

News analysis Now that President Joe Biden has formally announced his bid for a second term, the United States is one step closer to a rematch that polls suggest many Americans don’t want. No high-profile Democrat has entered the party’s 2024 presidential primary. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who declared his candidacy earlier this month, is…


Biden Holds Notes of Reporter’s Questions Before Calling on Her

President Joe Biden on Wednesday was pictured holding a cheat sheet that showed he knew a reporter’s question in advance. The incident took place in the White House Rose Garden as Biden was hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on his first visit to the United States as the two nations have reached a nuclear…


President Biden Holds Note With Reporter’s Question Before Calling on Her

President Joe Biden on Wednesday was pictured holding a cheat sheet that showed he knew a reporter’s question in advance. The incident took place in the White House Rose Garden as Biden was hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on his first visit to the United States as the two nations have reached a nuclear…


Biden Admin Says President Will Veto McCarthy Debt Limit Deal

President Joe Biden is already set to veto a bill favored by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to pair spending cuts with an increase to the federal debt limit. Last week, House Republicans released their plan for a debt limit increase—the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. The Republican bill allows the United States to…


President Biden Officially Announces 2024 Campaign

After months of hints and comments that he would seek a second term, President Joe Biden officially announced his 2024 reelection campaign in a video on April 25, four years to the day after he launched his 2020 presidential bid. In the video posted early Tuesday morning titled “Joe Biden Launches His Campaign For President: Let’s…


Ernst Gives Biden ‘Squeal Award’ for Sending Billions in Federal Tax Dollars to California Rail Projects

On the same day President Joe Biden is expected officially to announce he is seeking reelection in 2024, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is giving the chief executive her latest Squeal Award—this one for the billions of tax dollars being wasted by “the Biden Boondoggle Express” on costly California commuter rail projects. “Folks, your tax dollars…


Big Banks, Corporations Getting 90 Percent of Biden’s Green Energy Credits: Congressional Study

Most of the green energy tax benefits provided by President Joe Biden’s $750 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 are going into the coffers of big banks and billion-dollar corporations, according to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.). “While President Biden’s supercharged IRS is warming up to target working Americans, his…


AUKUS Is Developing Operational Vitality, but Faces Strategic Challenges

Commentary AUKUS, the nascent Australia-United Kingdom-United States of America strategic pact, continues to show considerable pace and development at an operational level but increasing division and dysfunction at a strategic political level. AUKUS, with three member states of the five-state “Five Eyes” intelligence exchange treaty (UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), is showing…


HUD ‘Unlikely’ to Get Biden’s Budget Recommendations, Lawmakers Tell Secretary Fudge

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge testified before the House Appropriations Committee on April 18, defending President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget requests for the agency. Biden’s budget proposal includes $73.3 billion for HUD, which is around $1.1 billion more than the funding level in 2023. The measure is also asking for $104 billion…


Biden to Sign Executive Order Aimed at Reducing Cost of Child Care and Long-Term Care

President Joe Biden announced an executive order in the Rose Garden on April 18 designed to increase access to and lower the costs of long-term care and child care, and support care workers and family caregivers the White House said in a statement. Calling it the most “comprehensive set of executive actions any president has…