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Biden Praises Partnership, Friendship Between US and Canada in Parliament Address

March 24, 2023
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OTTAWA, Canada—Emphasizing the importance of the U.S.-Canada partnership, President Joe Biden addressed Canadian Parliament on March 24 after bilateral meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The two leaders met in Ottawa days after Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin gathered in Moscow where they proclaimed their partnership would help shape a…

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OMB Director Young Defends Biden’s Budget Plan at House Budget Committee Hearing

March 24, 2023
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While talks between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) about spending cuts as a condition for increasing the debt ceiling remain at a stalemate, House Republicans and Democrats are divided in their viewpoints about Biden’s fiscal year 2024 federal budget proposal. On March 23, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young…

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‘We’re Lucky We Have Canada,’ Biden Says as Bilateral Meetings With Trudeau Begin

March 24, 2023
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President Joe Biden arrived in Ottawa on March 24 for bilateral meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It marks Biden’s first visit to Canada as president. Trudeau said before the two leaders entered their first meeting, “Obviously, we’ve been working closely together over the past few years on how to build strong economies for…

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Biden’s Mistaken Visit to Canada

March 23, 2023
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Commentary President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Canada on the eve of March 23, which will be the first U.S. presidential visit since President Barack Obama’s trip in 2016. Visits to Canada can be crowd-pleasers. On a trip in 2009, Obama made a surprise stop at an Ottawa bakery for a red maple-leaf cookie. Warm-hearted…

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HHS Secretary Defends Biden’s Budget Before Two Senate Panels

March 23, 2023
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Appearing before supportive Democrats and skeptical Republicans, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra defended President Joe Biden’s budget in front of Senate Appropriations and Finance panels on March 22. Biden’s HHS budget plan has been widely discussed since the White House announced a strategy to extend Medicare’s solvency beyond 2050 by raising the Medicare…

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Biden Hints at 2024 Presidential Run During Arts and Humanities Awards Ceremony

March 22, 2023
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At a White House event to recognize achievements in the arts and humanities on March 21, President Joe Biden offered another hint that he may seek a second term in 2024. One of the recipients of the 2021 National Humanities Medal was author Colson Whitehead, who had received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2017…

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‘Woke, Weaponized, Wasteful’ Spending Is Main Target of House GOP as Budget Battle Heats Up

March 22, 2023
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House Republican Conference Chairman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) didn’t hesitate a second when asked during the GOP congressional retreat in Orlando March 20 by Punchbowl co-founder Jake Sherman how she and her colleagues “can balance the budget without touching entitlements and mandatory spending” in 2023. “I believe that when we focus on Social Security and Medicare,…

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Watchdog Says Biden’s Energy Department Hands Out $56 Million in Unaudited Grants, Warns More Waste, Fraud Likely

March 14, 2023
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More than $56 million in Department of Energy (DOE) grants to 60 for-profit recipients—including billions of dollars under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act—are not being audited as required by federal law because DOE isn’t obtaining regular reports on how the money is being spent, according to a government watchdog. “We found that [DOE’s Office…

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Biden Administration Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project in Alaska

March 13, 2023
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The Biden administration’s decision to allow ConocoPhillips to proceed with its $8 billion North Slope Alaska Willow Project while making the Arctic Ocean off-limits to oil development and banning new leases on 13 million of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska’s 23 million acres is drawing criticism from all sides. But don’t count ConocoPhillips among the critics….

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Partisan Divide Evident About Ohio Toxic Train Derailment Response

March 10, 2023
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Legislators on both sides of the aisle have widely criticized the Biden administration for its response to Norfolk Southern’s toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3. Partisan divide about the topic was evident on March 9 at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to explore the crash that occurred in…

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