Biden: I Don’t Understand Today’s Republican Party
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The president expressed bafflement at GOP attacks on Liz Cheney as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pledged “100%” opposition to the White House.
President Joe Biden, who predicted throughout his campaign that he would be able to work with a post-Donald Trump Republican Party, admitted Wednesday that he was surprised by the former president’s ongoing influence. Still, Biden reiterated his desire to work with Republicans on an infrastructure package and even insisted he could work with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell mere hours after McConnell told a crowd in Kentucky he was “100%” focused on stopping the still-new Democratic administration. Biden’s comments highlight the administration’s struggle to attract widespread GOP legislative support for his signature proposals, even as many of those proposals draw significant support from rank-and-file Republican voters in public opinion surveys. Throughout the presidential race, Biden said his lengthy tenure in Congress made him well-suited to win GOP support for liberal ideas ― a proposition other Democratic candidates suggested was naive.
In a rematch of sorts from 2022, the Trump-endorsed Begich emerged victorious for a seat the GOP was keen to claim.
Wednesday was the first time Congress has voted on blocking specific arms transfers to Israel, reflecting deep frustration among lawmakers with Israeli conduct in Gaza and Lebanon.
Educators are sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s choice to put the former WWE chief executive at the helm of public education.
Delaware's Sarah McBride said she had not been sent to Washington to "fight about bathrooms."
Although the president-elect's daughter-in-law, who said she'd "absolutely consider" serving in the Senate, just announced an athleisure line.
There are too many "unanswered questions" about Gaetz' sexual misconduct allegations to properly vet him for attorney general, the lawmakers say.
It was the second run for Kaptur since her district was redrawn, but her first with a mainstream GOP opponent.
Eagle lovers around the world were crushed when the nest of a Minnesota pair and their chick collapsed on live video last year.
HuffPost obtained a White House message to senators ahead of a crucial vote on sending the Israelis more arms amid the Gaza and Lebanon wars. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is helping the administration shield the policy.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said Tuesday that the selection "would be funny if it weren't so sad," adding, "This is the dream team? Really?”
For three storms, including this month's Rafael, the climate change factor goosed wind speed so much that the winds increased by two storm categories.