The president of the National School Boards Association, Viola Garcia, has been tapped by the Biden administration for a position on the federal ​board setting policy for […]
Day: October 26, 2021
KEARNY, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 25: U.S. President Joe Biden gives a speech on his Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal and Build Back Better Agenda at the NJ Transit Meadowlands Maintenance Complex on October 25, 2021 in Kearny, New Jersey. On Thursday during a CNN Town Hall, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that a deal to pass major infrastructure and social spending measures was close to being done. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also announced on Sunday that she expects Democrats to have an "agreement" on a framework for the social safety net plan and a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill in the next week. The reconciliation package, which was slated at first to cost $3.5 trillion, would still be the biggest support to expanding education, health care and child care support, and also help to fight the climate crisis as well as make further investments in infrastructure. Congress still needs to pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill by October 31 before the extension of funding for surface transportation expires. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 30: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speak to a reporter after a private meeting between the two of them before a vote on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Democrats continue to scrabble to salvage something out of their stalled “Build Back Better” agenda, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appearing Sunday on CNN’s “State of […]
TOPSHOT - US Vice President Kamala Harris meets with the National Pan-Hellenic Council, commonly referred to as the Divine 9, in the Vice Presidents Ceremonial Office at the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the White House in Washington, DC, on October 6, 2021. - The Divine Nine, known formally as the National Pan-Hellenic Council, consists of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
The Biden administration is reaching out to a group of historically black fraternities and sororities in order to shore up support for voting rights and police reform […]
SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 20: President Joe Biden speaks at an event at the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton on October 20, 2021 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In an effort to appease West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, the President has discussed a $1.75 to $1.9 trillion price tag for the spending package that's currently being negotiated. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A congressional group of Republican physicians has warned in letters to President Joe Biden and the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that […]
US drone attack on the convoy of the Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, 3d render. Baghdad airport, Iraq.
Iran was behind a drone attack launched against a military outpost in Syria last week where some U.S. forces are stationed, Pentagon officials said on Monday. Defense […]
West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin put the brakes on one of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ legislative priorities on Monday — substantially expanding Medicare benefits — after he […]
Democrats in Congress are once again renewing calls that any Republican member implicated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building ought to be expelled […]
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing Harlingen, Texas on January 12, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The White House has rejected at least two executive privilege requests from former President Donald Trump in an effort to shield certain documents from the Democrat-controlled […]