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Biden Administration
Joe Biden Defends His First Year in Marathon Press Conference
By Brian Bennett
Democrats' Odds of Passing Voting Rights Reform Looked Bad Before Biden Went to the Hill—And Worse After He Left
By Abby Vesoulis
Why Biden Flipped on Ending the Filibuster
By Brian Bennett
Biden Appeals to Black Voters in Atlanta Voting-Rights Speech
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Biden Administration
Biden Administration COVID-19 Response Scrutinized During Senate Panel Hearing
The Biden administration came under fire for its pandemic response and communications as the omicron variant continues to drive U.S. Covid-19 cases. Conflicting guidance on issues such as boosters and testing have left the public...
By Fiona Rutherford/Bloomberg
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Almost Had Universal Childcare 50 Years Ago. The Same Attacks Might Kill It Today
Among the policy proposals included in the "Build Back Better" Act championed by the Biden administration and congressional Democrats is legislation the White House describes as "the largest investment in childcare in the nation's history."...
By Olivia B. Waxman
December 9, 2021
Why the Omicron Variant Is a New Political Test for Joe Biden
One of Joe Biden’s greatest political vulnerabilities going into next year is a mutating virus. Voters do not seem to be rewarding President Biden for his big-dollar legislative accomplishments. He’s getting declining marks in polls...
By Brian Bennett
November 29, 2021
How Biden’s Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill
Joe Biden stood in front of an aging bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire on Tuesday as some of the first winter snowflakes began to fall, and touted the $550 billion in new infrastructure spending he...
By Brian Bennett
November 16, 2021
Joe Biden Faces His Next Challenge on the Infrastructure Bill: Making Voters Care
The President was running late. It was one of Joe Biden’s first chances since his enormous bipartisan infrastructure bill passed Congress to beam directly into living rooms in Kentucky and Ohio and describe how it...
By Brian Bennett
November 10, 2021
Doug Emhoff Is Still New at This
It’s a sunny October day, and Doug Emhoff is back in his native New Jersey for the first time as Second Gentleman of the United States. “It looks surprisingly the same, except this beautiful city...
By Charlotte Alter
November 8, 2021
Joe Biden Meets With Pope Amid Tensions With Catholics
The two men exchanged gifts. President Joe Biden pressed into Pope Francis’s palm a command coin bearing the insignia of his deceased son Beau’s military unit. Pope Francis handed Biden a signed declaration of peace....
By Brian Bennett
October 29, 2021
What to Expect for Joe Biden's Europe Trip to G20 and COP26
Joe Biden's first Europe trip was focused on cleaning up Donald Trump's mess. Now, he has his own repair work to do.
By Brian Bennett
October 28, 2021
Joe Biden Just Put the Two Holdout Democrats Under the Spotlight to Reach a Spending Deal
With his approval levels sagging and negotiations dragging on his signature infrastructure and social spending bills, President Joe Biden is bringing his pitch directly to the American public in an effort to press Democrats in...
By Brian Bennett/Baltimore, Md.
October 21, 2021
Lawsuit: Biden Administration Foster Program Rejected Woman for Being Gay
Kelly Easter wanted to help. Like many Americans, she watched the news in 2020 in dismay at the conditions awaiting unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Easter, a 47-year-old realtor, lives alone in her...
By Madeleine Carlisle
October 20, 2021
Democrats Struggle to Keep Faith in Joe Biden During Spending Negotiations
As Democrats try to reach a deal on trillions of dollars in spending for infrastructure and social programs, some involved in the process are growing impatient and struggling to keep faith in President Joe Biden’s...
By Brian Bennett
October 20, 2021
Biden May Let Congress Have More of Trump's Jan. 6 Records
For over a century, U.S. Presidents have fought zealously to defend the executive branch’s right to withhold certain information from Congress and the public. President Joe Biden, facing extreme political pressure in the fraught probe...
By Nik Popli
October 18, 2021
Biden's Refusal to Back Trump's Executive Privilege Claim Is the Right Call
An executive-privilege controversy that has been brewing boiled over on Oct. 8, when President Joe Biden said that he will waive the privilege and direct the National Archives to produce to congressional investigators records pertaining...
By Chuck Rosenberg
October 8, 2021
Why Joe Biden Isn’t Strong-Arming the Senate Democrats Holding Up His Agenda
Senators have spent hours on the custard-colored couches of Joe Biden’s Oval Office over the past several days. Dozens of chocolate chip cookies have been passed out. Irish poetry has been quoted. In one White...
By Brian Bennett
September 29, 2021
Joe Biden's Effort to Pass His Domestic Agenda
This is not how Joe Biden wanted September to go. He expected to be barnstorming the country in the closing weeks of negotiations on his signature spending plan, pitching the expansion of health care benefits...
By Brian Bennett
September 24, 2021
Biden Wants to Send Aid to Afghanistan Without Supporting Taliban
When President Joe Biden stood in front of the iconic green marble and gold foil backdrop to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, he declared that the U.S. had...
By Brian Bennett
September 22, 2021
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Long Without Leaders
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) remains without a leader after President Joe Biden's selection of David Chipman to lead the organization was pulled on Sept. 9 after weeks of speculation and...
By Josiah Bates
September 16, 2021
Biden Retains Confidence in Mark Milley Despite Trump Actions
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took extraordinary steps to try to prevent Donald Trump from using military action to remain in office, according to revelations from a forthcoming book by Washington...
By Brian Bennett
September 15, 2021
Joe Biden Wants to Honor 9/11—By Moving On From National Security Priorities That Defined the Past 20 Years
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, it was Joe Biden’s wife Jill who told him on the phone that a second plane had crashed into New York’s Twin Towers. Biden was on board an...
By Brian Bennett
September 10, 2021
'A Decision Was Made.' Biden Faces the Fallout for His Chaotic Retreat in Afghanistan
For 35 minutes, as flag-draped cases were carried down a ramp, Biden stood in front of the cold reality of his decisions
By Brian Bennett
September 2, 2021
Congressional Oversight on Afghanistan Is Just Beginning
America’s longest war may have ended, but the accountability battles for President Joe Biden's Administration are just beginning. Questions about the Biden Administration’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan—which resulted in a gruesome terror attack that left...
By Alana Abramson
August 31, 2021
Biden Faces a Test Evacuating Americans From Afghanistan
When Afghanistan's now-deposed President Ashraf Ghani visited President Joe Biden in the White House in late June, he expressed some concerns about how the U.S. planned to evacuate people ahead of the troop withdrawal from...
By Alana Abramson
August 24, 2021
Joe Biden Mishandled the Afghanistan Withdrawal. Do Voters Care?
Less than 24 hours after the Taliban marched into Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul, the Biden Administration announced the largest permanent expansion of food stamp benefits in nearly half a century. The news received scant...
By Alana Abramson
August 18, 2021
Afghan Americans Scramble to Help Family Back Home
While their neighbors argued about political blame and long-term consequences, for Afghan Americans the tragic scenes overseas are personal.
By Vera Bergengruen
August 17, 2021
U.S. Implements Largest Food Stamps Increase in History
As expanded unemployment benefits, a near-nationwide eviction moratorium, a pause on federal student loan payments and other temporary pandemic-related government benefits near their expiration dates, the Biden Administration announced on Monday that it was going...
By Abby Vesoulis
August 16, 2021
Joe Biden's Botched Withdrawal
Biden's miscalculation could alter his presidency and weaken U.S. standing overseas. He supported the invasion, but he got elected on a platform of pulling troops out
By W.J. Hennigan
August 15, 2021
CDC Issues New Eviction Moratorium Amid Standoff Between White House and Progressive Democrats
Raven Sullivan is awake responding to emails at 2:05 a.m. She recently received notice that her landlord wants to evict her and her two toddlers from their Georgia rental home over roughly $2,600 in unpaid...
By Abby Vesoulis
August 3, 2021
Biden Faces Pressure on Masks, Rising COVID-19 Cases
The CDC walked back its earlier guidance, now saying some who are vaccinated should put their masks back on while indoors
By Brian Bennett
July 27, 2021
Joe Biden Gets His Bipartisan Moment on Infrastructure
President Joe Biden has long said he wants to show Americans that Washington can work to solve problems. In coming to a tentative agreement with a bipartisan group of senators to fund approximately $1.2 trillion...
By Brian Bennett
June 24, 2021
Inside Biden's Effort to Get America Vaccinated
A crop of volunteers may be the Biden Administration’s best hope to beat COVID-19
By Abigail Abrams/Texarkana, Texas
June 23, 2021
How Biden Plans to Combat Rising Gun Violence
President Joe Biden has largely relegated his public remarks on domestic policies to two topics: the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy. But rising murder rates over the past year and the potential for a summer...
By Alana Abramson
June 23, 2021
Joe Biden is Caught in the Middle of a Catholic Church Debate Over Communion
A rift in the American Catholic Church widened in June, as U.S. bishops voted to draft instructions to the faithful on who should receive Communion, with an eye toward dissuading high-profile Catholics like Joe Biden...
By Brian Bennett
June 22, 2021
Joe Biden Tries to Reset Diplomacy After Trump
Biden's trip to the G7 Summit and the NATO meeting is an opportunity for him to reset American diplomacy after four years of Trump.
By Brian Bennett
June 11, 2021
Inside the Biden Administration's Response to the Spike in Anti-Semitic Attacks
Prodded by Jewish leaders concerned about rising anti-Semitic attacks, the Biden Administration has taken steps in recent days to combat the threat and douse simmering frustrations about its response. The White House held discreet virtual...
By Alana Abramson
May 28, 2021
Joe Biden Delivers His First Major Presidential Speech
President Joe Biden has attended dozens of presidential addresses to Congress since he first came to Washington in 1973. But after nearly half a century of being an audience member, he finally got the speaking...
By Alana Abramson
April 28, 2021
Joe Biden Confronts Challenges in First Press Conference
Joe Biden held his first formal news conference as president 65 days into this presidency, after making a series of consequential moves in the early weeks of his Administration to help curb the COVID-19 pandemic...
By Alana Abramson
March 25, 2021
After Mass Shootings, Joe Biden Faces Pressure to Act on Gun Control
In the wake of two deadly shooting sprees in Atlanta and Boulder, calls for gun control from both activists and members of Biden's own party are already intensifying
By Alana Abramson
March 23, 2021
Advocates: Biden's Private Prison Ban Didn't Go Far Enough
'There is much more work to be done'
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 29, 2021
What Happens to the Federal Death Penalty Under Biden?
Joe Biden is the first president in U.S. history to openly campaign on abolishing the death penalty and win. Now that he's in the White House, pressure is already mounting from activists and lawmakers for...
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 25, 2021
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