Author: Haisten Willis
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Buttigieg faces fresh leadership test with Baltimore bridge collapse
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The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge has presented Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with an opportunity to rehabilitate his image after being the target of Republican criticism for years over his performance. “Today this is happening in Baltimore. Tomorrow it could be your district,” he said during a White House briefing Wednesday, making an appeal for bipartisanship in Congress. “We…
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Biden backs funding bill to avoid shutdown: ‘I will sign it immediately’
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President Joe Biden has pledged to back a funding deal to avoid a government shutdown. Congressional negotiators hammered out a deal to complete their final spending bill on Monday night, and aides are now writing the text of a bill to keep the government open. “We have come to an agreement with congressional leaders on…
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Biden administration sued over surveillance records amid FISA debate
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EXCLUSIVE – The Cato Institute has sued the Biden administration for records of possible surveillance violations as Congress debates reauthorizing a crucial statute. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, will expire on April 19 unless renewed by Congress, and a key question is whether warrants should be required to obtain data…
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Biden’s ‘mental state’ in question after classified documents report and memory lapses
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President Joe Biden‘s mental acuity has been cast under a harsh spotlight following repeated memory lapses and a report that labeled him a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory.” Biden has mixed up living European leaders for dead ones three times within the last week, needed a reporter’s help to remember the name of…
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Biden campaign crows about fundraising haul that Obama ‘couldn’t get even close’ to
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President Joe Biden‘s campaign raised just over $97 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 and has what campaign officials say is a historic record of money ready to spend. “The team is also reporting a historic $117 million in cash on hand, the highest total amassed by any Democratic candidate in history at this…
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Biden’s big question: Debate or decline?
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President Joe Biden may be weighing his own version of the famous Hamlet question as fall approaches: to debate or not to debate. Since 1976, the answer to that question for every major party presidential nominee has been “yes.” But there are rumblings from within the Democratic Party that Biden should turn that precedent on…
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Republican debate: Winners and losers of fourth GOP matchup in Alabama
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A trimmed-down field of four candidates took the stage at the fourth Republican presidential debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hoping to make their cases to voters as primaries start next month. All four sit far behind front-runner Donald Trump, whose lead is such that he hasn’t bothered even to take the stage. The aspirants hoped to…
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Biden bailed out? Election results could showcase path to 2024 reelection | ANALYSIS
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What a difference an election makes. Before Tuesday night, Washington gossip centered on a weekend poll that showed President Joe Biden losing to Donald Trump in five key swing states and trailing a generic Democrat by 13 points. Now, with Democrats and the pro-abortion rights movement scoring key victories, Biden once again looks poised for…
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Ukraine aid could be Biden’s first big battle with Johnson
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President Joe Biden’s first showdown with the new speaker of the House has already begun. House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected Biden’s $106 billion supplemental funding request, which would have tied money for Israel to money for Ukraine, in favor of an Israel-only bill. “There are lots of things going on around the world that…
