President Biden on Wednesday said he’s not confident that the Supreme Court will decide to clear his student loan forgiveness plan, while the majority-conservative court weighs the case. “I’m confident we’re on the right side of the law. I’m not confident about the outcome of the decision yet,” the president told reporters at the White…
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White House brushes off angst, chatter about Biden not running
The White House and some of its allies are shrugging off angst and chatter about whether President Biden will really run for reelection in 2024 at the age of 81. Biden looks like a president who plans to run for a second term regardless of his age. Look at the State of the Union address…
Biden marks Ash Wednesday, celebrates mass with Polish priest in hotel room
President Biden marked Ash Wednesday during his visit to Warsaw, attending a private Catholic Mass in a hotel room with a Polish priest. Biden, the second Catholic president in U.S. history, was seen with a cross of ashes on his forehead in photographs on Wednesday afternoon ahead of a summit of the Bucharest Nine, the…
Buttigieg to travel to East Palestine on Thursday amid criticism Biden administration isn’t doing enough
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is set to travel to East Palestine, Ohio, on Thursday in the wake of the hazardous train derailment earlier this month. The secretary will meet with community members affected by the derailment, receive an update on the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) investigation and hear from investigators on the ground, according…
Jill Biden meets with president of Namibia as she begins Africa trip
First lady Jill Biden met with President of the Republic of Namibia Hage Geingob on Wednesday to kick off her five-day, two-country visit to Africa. “We wanted to come because this is a young democracy and we want to support democracies around the world,” Biden said ahead of the meeting. Biden visited with Geingob and…
Biden calls Putin’s New START withdrawal a ‘big mistake’
President Biden on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to pull out of the New START nuclear arms treaty is the wrong move. “Big mistake,” he told reporters in Warsaw, after previously saying he didn’t have time to discuss the issue. The New START treaty, which is the only remaining nuclear arms control…
Biden to mark one year of Russia-Ukraine war in Poland
President Biden is set to mark the 1-year anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine with a high-stakes trip to Poland as the war is widely expected to drag on. Biden will be in the same place he was last year when he told the world from Warsaw that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot “remain…
Biden won’t apologize for shooting down spy balloon; to speak with Xi
President Biden on Thursday said he plans to talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping following the U.S. military take down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, stressing that he makes no apologies for giving the order to shoot it down. “I expect to be speaking with President Xi,” Biden said in remarks at the White…
Biden to deliver address on aerial objects
President Biden on Thursday is set to deliver remarks on the U.S. military’s shooting down of unidentified aerial objects that were brought down over the weekend. The remarks, slated for 2 p.m. from the White House, come amid growing calls from lawmakers for the president to publicly address the unprecedented situation. Three objects were shot down…
Spy balloon dustup sends US-China relations from bad to worse
Revelations of a global Chinese balloon spying program have upended fledgling attempts by President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to manage tensions that risk spiraling into confrontation and conflict. Lines of communication between Washington and Beijing remain in flux as the US has repeatedly scrambled fighter jets to take down unidentified flying objects over…