Dave Boyer

Biden complains that Trump intimidates GOP a year after leaving office

President Biden on Wednesday lamented former President Donald Trump's lasting grip on the Republican Party, saying it is preventing the GOP from working with him on his agenda.

January 19, 2022

Biden to break up $1.8 trillion economic bill, try to pass it in pieces

President Biden on Wednesday officially threw in the towel on his roughly $1.8 trillion social welfare and climate bill, saying he would instead break up the legislation and try to pass "big chunks."

January 19, 2022

Biden says he exceeded expectations in first year, vows to stay the course

President Biden marked his first year in office Wednesday by saying his administration still needs to get inflation and COVID-19 under control, but boasted that he made "enormous progress."

January 19, 2022

Biden’s rocky first year sapped support for Democratic Party, left voters worried about what’s next

The first year of a presidency is usually the best, and that's bad news for President Biden and his Democratic Party.

January 19, 2022

VP Harris waging last-minute lobbying of senators ahead of action on voting-rights measures

Vice President Kamala Harris said she was busy lobbying lawmakers on the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday to rescue Democrats' bills on voting rights, ahead of planned Senate action this week.

January 17, 2022

Minnesota drops racial formula to dispense COVID-19 treatment; other states still disfavoring Whites

Minnesota's health department, under threat of a lawsuit, has removed race as a preferential factor in deciding which COVID-19 patients will receive monoclonal antibody treatments.

January 17, 2022

Legal group demands states end racist COVID-19 treatment policy, threatens lawsuit

The health departments of New York state, Minnesota and Utah face potential lawsuits alleging they discriminate against White people by giving priority to select minorities for scarce COVID-19 treatments, part of a growing backlash nationwide against the race-based policy.

January 14, 2022

Inflation saps family budgets, defies Democrats’ assurances

Consumer prices jumped 7% in December from a year earlier, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, saddling households with the highest inflation rate for necessities since 1982 and putting President Biden and Democrats on the defensive at the start of the midterm election year.

January 12, 2022

Powell calls inflation a severe threat, disputes White House claims of easing supply-chain woes

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell on Tuesday disputed President Biden's claim that supply-chain problems have eased, telling Congress that persistent bottlenecks are responsible for record-high inflation that could prompt the central bank to raise interest rates more than planned.

January 11, 2022

Biden shrugs off Stacey Abrams skipping his big voting speech in Georgia

President Biden on Tuesday dismissed plans by voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams to not attend his major speech on Democrats' legislation to overhaul the nation's election laws.

January 11, 2022

Inflation dominates Powell’s confirmation hearing for a second term steering the Fed

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers Tuesday that the central bank is "strongly committed" to keeping prices stable, as he seeks confirmation for a second four-year term.

January 11, 2022

Fed Chair Powell to pledge to fight inflation at Senate hearing on bid for second term

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will tell lawmakers Tuesday that the central bank is "strongly committed" to keeping prices stable, as he seeks confirmation for a second four-year term.

January 11, 2022

Stacey Abrams to skip Biden’s speech on voting measures in Georgia

Georgian Stacey Abrams is among the voting-rights activists who are skipping President Biden's event in Atlanta on Tuesday to push for Democratic voting legislation.

January 11, 2022

Dems’ COVID-19 drug policies biased against Whites, legal scholars charge

Several Democratic-run states and cities are giving preference to non-White patients for receiving potentially lifesaving treatments for COVID-19, a race-based scheme that legal scholars say is unconstitutional.

January 9, 2022

One year later, Republicans and Democrats disagree more than ever over Jan. 6 attack

Partisan divisions have hardened in the year since the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, with Republicans less interested in prosecuting the rioters and Democrats firm in blaming former President Donald Trump for the violence, according to polls.

January 5, 2022

Rep. Conor Lamb, Pa. Senate candidate, promises to vote to end filibuster if elected

A House Democrat from Pennsylvania is intensifying his campaign for an open Senate seat with a pledge to end the filibuster if he's elected.

January 4, 2022

David McCormick steps down as hedge-fund CEO to consider Senate bid in Pennsylvania

The Republican primary for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania is about to be shaken up for the third time with the likely entry of David McCormick, a former Bush administration official and hedge-fund manager who is promising "a battle for the heart and soul of America."

January 3, 2022

CDC lowers estimate of omicron spread, says variant wasn’t dominant before Christmas

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday significantly revised downward its estimate of the percentage of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. caused by the omicron variant, raising questions about the agency's understanding of the new strain.

December 28, 2021

Manufacturing jobs ‘reshoring’ in U.S. due to supply chain woes, rising costs in China

The supply chain crisis and the pandemic have reinforced an economic maxim that executives at manufacturer Acme Alliance in Northbrook, Illinois, have emphasized for two decades: Keep your operations and jobs near your customers.

December 24, 2021

Biden moves at a faster clip than Trump on judges

President Biden is stocking the federal judiciary with liberal judges at a faster pace than former President Trump filled the bench with conservatives, as he tries to appease a progressive base unhappy that he abandoned a plan to pack the Supreme Court.

December 24, 2021