Ken Thomas
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Biden Stresses Contrast With GOP Economic Agenda as Midterm Challenges Grow
President Biden said Republicans would worsen inflation and raise taxes on American families, part of an effort to cast the GOP as obstructing his agenda and fixated on culture wars instead of governing. → Read More
Biden, Internet Providers Seek to Boost Adoption of Subsidized Broadband
Providers will help offer high-speed internet to millions of households under the infrastructure law. → Read More
U.S. Targets Russian Media, Bank Executives With New Sanctions
The Biden administration announced new sanctions targeting Russian state-controlled media and banking executives, a ban on Americans providing accounting and management-consulting services and new export controls targeting the country’s industrial sector. → Read More
Biden at Center of Fight Over Abortion After Career of Reservations
The Democratic president, who previously called his position “middle of the road,” is pressed by abortion rights supporters to be more outspoken in defense of procedure against Republicans. → Read More
Biden Names White House Aide Karine Jean-Pierre as New Press Secretary, Succeeding Jen Psaki
President Biden named Karine Jean-Pierre to be his new press secretary, elevating Jen Psaki’s top deputy to one of the White House’s most prominent roles ahead of November’s midterm elections. → Read More
Biden Requests Additional $33 Billion in Ukraine Aid
Package includes $20 billion in military and security assistance to maintain flow of weapons and ammunition to Kyiv. → Read More
Is Covid-19 Emergency Over? For Both Political Parties, It Depends on Issue
Democrats and Republicans make sometimes inconsistent arguments on whether pandemic rules on immigration, masks and student loans should live on. → Read More
Biden Administration Weighs Next Steps After Judge Throws Out Transportation Mask Mandate
The Justice Department hasn’t said whether it will appeal the ruling, which the administration criticized. An appeal would carry legal and political risks. → Read More
Former Treasury Official Michael Barr Is Frontrunner for Top Fed Banking Regulator
Michael Barr, a Treasury Department official in the Obama administration, is the White House’s leading candidate to serve as the Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator. → Read More
Biden Could Face Tougher Court Fights After Jackson
White House marks confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, but potential loss of Senate in the midterms could sink future judicial picks. → Read More
White House Press Secretary Psaki in Talks to Join MSNBC
Jen Psaki plans to leave the Biden administration this spring and is expected to host a show for the streaming service operated by NBCUniversal. → Read More
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Tests Positive for Covid-19 a Second Time
The press secretary no longer plans to travel this week to Europe with President Biden, who tested negative for the coronavirus Tuesday. → Read More
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Hearings to Focus on Legal Experience, Record on Crime
Republicans say confirmation hearings will probe Supreme Court nominee’s work as a public defender → Read More
Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws as Biden’s Pick for Top Fed Banking Regulator
Sarah Bloom Raskin, President Biden’s nominee to become the government’s most powerful banking regulator, withdrew from consideration amid opposition from Republicans and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin. → Read More
Half of Americans Doubt Biden Will Run in 2024, WSJ Poll Shows
Interviews with dozens of voters, activists and local officials in the nation’s top battleground states found a degree of ambivalence and uncertainty over whether the president, who is 79 years old, should seek another term. → Read More
Biden to Finalize ‘Buy American’ Rule for Government Procurements
The new requirements will mean that products obtained under the program will need to have at least 60% of the value of components made in the U.S., up from the current threshold of 55%. → Read More
White House Says Process Under Way to Determine if Russia Committed War Crimes
The White House said it has established a process to determine if any of Russia's activities in its invasion of Ukraine should be considered war crimes. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that the administration has “stood up a process internally” and was evaluating evidence and “r → Read More
Biden’s State of the Union Address to Highlight Economic Plans, Russia Sanctions
Democrats also hope the president outlines a message that his party can use in the November midterm elections. → Read More
Ukraine Crisis Raises Stakes for Biden’s State of the Union Address
Foreign policy will be front and center for a White House that had sought to spotlight the pandemic recovery and the administration’s accomplishments. → Read More
Biden to Announce His Supreme Court Nominee Friday Afternoon
The president has promised to nominate the first Black woman to the high court and interviewed three contenders. → Read More