Obama jokingly called Biden “vice president” on his return to the White House
Barack Obama visited the White House on Tuesday for his first public event at the executive mansion since leaving office. He was involved in the celebration of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, while Joe Biden announced changes to the health program that could get up to 200,000 uninsured Americans eligible for new coverage.
The visit led many Democrats to hope that Mr Biden could benefit from his former boss’s still high approval rating. Mr Biden has recently struggled to raise his profile in opinion polls, and there are serious fears that apathy and frustration among Democrat voters could allow Republicans to run in this year’s by-elections. Mr Obama says Democrats have to tell a story to win in the interim, they “just have to tell it”.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-11 for the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. The result will not prevent Ms. Jackson’s nomination from continuing in the Senate; she seems to already have the support of 53 senators, with Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Markowski and Mitt Romney breaking the ranks to support her.
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The Minister of Internal Security is meeting with the Republican Assembly on border restrictions
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with Republican members on Tuesday in the House of Representatives of the Border Security Group, but Republicans were “not happy with the answers.”
The Border Security Group – following last week’s announcement that the White House would remove all restrictions on Covid from the Trump era at the border – was fully charged during the meeting.
“It was a rough crowd, and you have to give it a lot of credit for choosing the toughest crowd, coming in and listening to them,” said Darrell Isa, a California Republican who attended the meeting.
“Nothing was really decided, except that he promised to provide a number of subsequent pieces of information,” he said.
Representative Brian Babin of Texas, co-chair of the group, told the meeting: “We appreciate his courage to come in, knowing that we are 100 percent against him. But we were not happy with the answers he gave us. “
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Biden extends the freeze on the Covid student loan until August 31
The United States is once again extending its pandemic-era break on federal student loans by postponing the restart date until at least August 31, the Associated Press reported.
This is the sixth time that the deadline for resuming payments has been extended as Joe Biden faces pressure from Congress and concerns about inflation.
Prior to the extension, the moratorium was due to expire on May 1, and more than 43 million Americans with $ 1.6 trillion in collective government loans would be back on track for their debt.
Oliver O’Connell April 6, 2022 04:45
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US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responds to Matt Goetz
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin looked so enraged by the bizarre series of interrogations by Republican Congressman Matt Goetz that he found himself in a game with screaming Florida officials at the end of Mr. Gaetz’s five-minute round.
Mr Austin was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify at a hearing by the House Armed Services Committee on the 2023 budget request for the fiscal year, but Mr Gaetz apparently decided to used his time to scold the former US Central Command chief for what he described as US defense failures caused by the Pentagon’s embrace of “vigilance.”
In particular, Mr Gaetz asked for a lecture given at the US National Defense University by the French economist and author Thomas Pickett, entitled “China’s Response: The Case for Global Justice and Democratic Socialism”.
Oliver O’Connell April 6, 2022 4:00 p.m.
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Kinzinger opposes the “children” of the Republican Party in Congress
Republican spokesman Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called his colleagues in Congress “children” for focusing more on Disney and the Cultural War than on the “genocide” that is happening in Ukraine at the hands of Russia.
Mr Kinzinger said the “world order” was challenged for the first time since World War II, but his fellow Republicans were behaving like “a bunch of kids”.
Oliver O’Connell April 6, 2022 03:15
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives has voted to ban abortion
The Oklahoma State Chamber voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that criminalizes abortion in the state, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, arguably the most restrictive anti-abortion bills passed since the U.S. Supreme Court first reported this. readiness to restrict reproductive rights last year.
The law, which will punish any Oklahoma resident who commits an abortion with a lengthy prison sentence and a fine of up to $ 100,000, was passed by the U.S. Senate last year before passing through the State House by a margin of 70-14 on Tuesday.
Oliver O’Connell April 6, 2022 02:30
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Biden nominated the first woman to lead a branch of the US military
She will be the first woman to lead a branch of the US military if confirmed. Admiral Fagan has been a deputy commandant since last June, becoming the first woman to reach the rank of four-star Coast Guard admiral.
Gustav Kilander reports from Washington, DC.
Oliver O’Connell April 6, 2022 01:45
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The mood on Capitol Hill
Representative Dan Kildi summed up the mood on Capitol Hill in front of Politico’s Sarah Ferris:
There are three types of days here. There are days at West Wing when we do some really great things. There are days at the House of Cards where the place just seems to fall apart. Then there are the days of Veep. Today is something like Veep Day. The fox bites Amy, Fred[Upston}leavesSleavingItjustsucks[Ъпстън}ситръгваПростоегадно[Upston}’sleavingItjustsucks
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Capitol police caught a fox that attacked an MP
U.S. Capitol police have caught a fox suspected of biting a congressman’s leg.
The police department tied up the animal after warning politicians and Capitol Hill officials to watch out for “aggressive encounters with foxes.”
Graham Massie reports one of the most unexpected stories coming out of DC today.
Here’s an exclusive look at his Punchbowl News costume:
Oliver O’Connell April 6, 2022 01:00
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Obama tells Democrats how to win the by-elections
Former President Barack Obama had a simple message for Democrats who are worried about losing their majority in the 2022 by-elections:
“We have a story to tell, we just have to tell it,” he told NBC News’s Peter Alexander.
The former president received a standing ovation when he returned to the White House for the first time since leaving the Oval Office in 2017 to mark the 12th anniversary of the passage of his signed health care law, the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare in the press.
Eric Garcia reports from Washington, DC.
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The White House says Russia’s financial system is close to bankruptcy
Justin Vallejo has the latest.
Oliver O’Connell April 5, 2022 11:30 p.m.
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