Category: Executive Branch

LIVE NOW: White House Holds Daily Press Briefing After House Passed the Bill Protecting Women in Sports

White House holds press briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at 1:00 p.m. ET on April 20. …


White House Blasts GOP Debt-Ceiling Proposal: ‘Blueprint to Devastate’ American Families

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has issued a sharply critical statement on the Republican debt-ceiling proposal, calling it a “blueprint to devastate hard-working American families” and accusing the GOP of “holding the American economy hostage” in order to push for spending cuts. Her statement, issued on Thursday, builds on a rebuke of the Republican plan…


‘No Idea’ If COVID-19 Originated in Chinese Laboratory: NIH Director

COVID-19 may have originated in a set of laboratories in China that was conducting experiments with U.S. taxpayer dollars, the head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on April 19. “Did the COVID-19 virus originate from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) asked Dr. Lawrence Tabak, the acting NIH…


CDC Director Admits Vaccinated Individuals Can Transmit COVID-19 to Others

A top U.S. health official acknowledged on April 19 that people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine can transmit the disease to others. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), made the unsupported claim in 2021 that people who had received a COVID-19 vaccine “do not carry…


LIVE NOW: Yellen Gives Objectives for US–China Economic Relationship

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen lays out the Biden administration’s principal objectives for the U.S.–China economic relationship at 10:00 a.m. ET on April 20 in a speech at John Hopkins University. …


Yellen Gives Objectives for US–China Economic Relationship

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen lays out the Biden administration’s principal objectives for the U.S.–China economic relationship at 10:00 a.m. ET on April 20 in a speech at John Hopkins University. …


LIVE NOW: Senate Committee Hearing on Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee holds a hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List at 10:00 a.m. ET on April 20. …


Senate Committee Hearing on Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee holds a hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s 2023 High Risk List at 10:00 a.m. ET on April 20. …


LIVE 10 AM ET: Secretary Buttigieg Testifies at House Appropriations Committee’s Budget Hearing

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg testifies at the budget hearing of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee at 10 a.m. ET on April 20. …


LIVE NOW: Secretary Buttigieg Testifies at House Appropriations Committee’s Budget Hearing

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg testifies at the budget hearing of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee at 10 a.m. ET on April 20. …