Category: The Presidency
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Buoyed by Jobs Report, Biden Moves to Reduce Fuel Costs
The Labor Department announced that the U.S. economy added 431,000 jobs in March continuing a streak of consecutive months with positive employment numbers. The unemployment rate decreased to 3.6 percent which was the lowest since February 2020. President Joe Biden said that the jobs report was good for fighting inflation and that the economy had […]
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A Historic Choice for the High Court
President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson from the influential D.C. Circuit to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Jackson would make history as the first African American woman to serve on the nation’s high court and her nomination fulfills a campaign promise made by the president. Moreover, Judge Jackson […]
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Biden Seeks Reset as Second Year Begins
President Biden sought to reset the trajectory of his presidency as he officially started the second year of his term. This comes as the president suffered another setback when senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster and pass voting rights legislation. Biden’s signature proposed legislation, called Build Back Better, is also in jeopardy […]
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High Level Talks Between U.S. & China Presidents
The leaders of China and the U.S. held a virtual meeting in hopes of reducing tensions amongst the two power countries. While Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden have spoken twice on the phone since Biden took office earlier this year, the high-level summit represents the first time the two heads of […]
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A Win for President Biden: Infrastructure Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 226-208 to approve a 1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill after months of internal debate and division. The bill will now head to the president’s desk for signature. Passage of the bill gives the president a much-needed political victory in the same week that Republicans made some notable electoral gains […]
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Biden Seeks to Ease Supply Chain Problems
President Joe Biden announced measures to ease the glut at several of the nation’s ports creating delays with the supply chain. The president announced plans to keep the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach running seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Mr. Biden is also considering enlisting the National Guard to help […]
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Abbott Escalates Battle with Federal Government
Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning any entity in Texas from mandating the COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine mandates became even more contentious when the Biden administration issued its own order that would require most employers to inoculate their workers. Abbott’s order was met defiantly by some Texas-based companies who are already mandating vaccines and […]
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Democrats Seek Intraparty Deal
President Biden travelled to Capitol Hill in hopes of brokering a deal between his party’s moderate and progressive wings. At stake was the president’s Build Back Better plan, but intraparty disagreement in Congress threatened his broader agenda. House Democrats are divided along ideological lines. Progressives want a robust social policy bill and have threatened to […]