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Biden says Jan. 6 hearing will expose ‘flagrant’ violations of Constitution

President Biden said the first congressional hearing Thursday night on the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol will show that the rioters violated the Constitution.

June 9, 2022

Biden says at summit that ‘trickle-down’ economics is a failure

President Biden told business leaders of the Western Hemisphere Thursday that conservative "trickle-down" economic policies are a failure, as he called for more spending by governments and businesses despite high inflation and other headwinds.

June 9, 2022

House Dems quietly push through a potential 9% increase in FY23 spending

House Democrats on Wednesday approved quietly -- budget hawks said sneakily -- a resolution setting a top level of federal discretionary spending for fiscal 2023 at $1.6 trillion, which would be a 9% increase over current spending at a time of 40-year-high inflation.

June 8, 2022

GOP says Biden intentionally boosts gas prices to aid his climate agenda

With gas prices having more than doubled under President Biden, congressional Republicans increasingly are accusing the president of scheming for exactly that to happen, the better to pursue his clean-energy climate agenda.

June 8, 2022

Yellen wants more money to fix the ‘awful’ performance of the IRS

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress Wednesday that the IRS is doing an "awful" job responding to taxpayers but President Biden's request for $80 billion more for the agency will increase its efficiency.

June 8, 2022

Yellen warns inflation to remain ‘high,’ force Biden to revise budget forecasts

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that she expects inflation to remain "high" this year, even telling lawmakers that the administration's two-month-old forecast for price increases needs to be revised.

June 7, 2022

Lawmakers grill Janet Yellen on spending, gas prices as she predicts inflation to stay ‘high’

Republican lawmakers grilled Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Tuesday over high inflation and soaring gas prices, saying the Biden administration's big spending and clean energy agenda has left Americans worse off.

June 7, 2022

Fewer Americans blame Jan. 6 riot on Trump

House Democrats' plan for a prime-time Jan. 6 committee hearing Thursday to roll out their evidence of a conspiracy is running into a dwindling number of Americans who blame former President Donald Trump for the riot at the U.S. Capitol seeking to disrupt the 2020 election vote count.

June 6, 2022

Biden rejects Musk’s ‘super bad feeling’ about economy: ‘There’s every reason… to feel confident’

President Biden on Friday hailed the latest jobs report as proof that the U.S. economy is strong, even as he conceded that record high inflation and gas prices are still hurting many families' budgets.

June 3, 2022

Republicans beef up cadre of poll workers in Democratic strongholds in ‘election integrity’ effort

Republicans are deploying a legion of recruits nationwide to serve as poll workers this year, a new strategy that party officials say will finally give it a robust Election Day presence in Democratic bastions such as Detroit.

June 2, 2022

White House promises to check whether Biden lied about his Annapolis appointment

Even the White House said it wasn't sure whether President Biden lied last week when he told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy that he turned down an appointment to Annapolis in 1965.

May 31, 2022

Biden says Powell, Fed will get inflation under control

President Biden tried to assure Americans Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the central bank will get control of record inflation, despite the price of gas hitting another high and three-quarters of voters saying the nation is headed in the wrong direction.

May 31, 2022

Vice President Harris to attend memorial for victim of Buffalo grocery store massacre

Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a memorial service on Saturday for one of the victims of the May 14 mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

May 27, 2022

Biden tells Naval Academy graduates that next decade will be ‘decisive’ for democracies

President Biden told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday that they will serve a key role in defending democracy from autocracies such as Russia and China in the next decade.

May 27, 2022

Bidens to visit the scene of the Texas school massacre on Sunday

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel on Sunday to the scene of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the White House said.

May 26, 2022

McConnell endorses talks with Dems over possible gun legislation after Texas school massacre

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he encouraged Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to start talks with Democrats on possible new gun laws in response to the shooting massacre at an elementary school in Texas.

May 26, 2022

Jill Biden says president will visit Uvadle school shooting scene, prays for ‘common sense’

First lady Jill Biden said Wednesday that she and President Biden will visit the town in Texas where at least 19 elementary school students were shot dead, and she offered a prayer for Americans to "act united with common sense to protect our children."

May 25, 2022

$1.9T COVID-19 relief advanced equity, boosted Black people and Hispanic people, report finds

The White House released a report Tuesday to show that President Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief measure of 2021, which is now being blamed for record-high inflation, has succeeded -- especially by helping Black people and Hispanic people get jobs and keep their homes.

May 24, 2022

Biden blames Putin, ‘ultra-MAGA’ for inflation, vows to give voters ‘simple’ explanations

President Biden on Tuesday blamed Russia's war in Ukraine, corporate greed, the pandemic and the policies of "ultra-MAGA Republicans" for causing record-high inflation.

May 10, 2022

Biden, Democrats face long odds to lower inflation sharply by Election Day

Time is running out on Democrats' hopes to get inflation under control before the November elections.

May 9, 2022