Tag: Joe Biden

$1 at Start of Biden’s Term Now Worth 88 Cents as Inflation ‘Crushing’ Americans: Sen. Ron Johnson

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) illustrated in a statement on Sept. 20 how soaring inflation has eroded Americans’ purchasing power, pointing out in stark terms that $1 at the start of the Biden administration was now effectively worth just 88.3 cents. Johnson, who’s been a repeated vocal critic of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy and…


$1 at Start of Biden’s Term Now Worth 88 Cents as Inflation ‘Crushing’ Americans: Sen. Johnson

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) illustrated in a statement on Sept. 20 how soaring inflation has eroded Americans’ purchasing power, pointing out in stark terms that $1 at the start of the Biden administration is now effectively worth just 88.3 cents. Johnson, who’s been a repeated vocal critic of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy and…


Biden Is Losing the Race for the Cure

Commentary President Joe Biden recently announced, with great fanfare, his Cancer Moonshot initiative. Biden used soaring and promising rhetoric about, at last, finding a cure for one of the world’s leading killers. Speaking at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Sept. 12, the president declared: “Beating cancer is something we…


US-Mexico Border Arrests Top 2 Million in a Year for the First Time in History

Arrests at the United States-Mexico border rose above 2 million in one year for the first time, according to new statistics released by President Joe Biden’s administration. Agents made about 203,500 apprehensions at the southern border in August, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported late Sept. 19. That brought the total apprehensions in Fiscal Year…


After Biden Declares COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Is Over,’ Fauci Reveals ‘What He Really Meant’

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci attempted to walk back a statement made by President Joe Biden during a recent interview that the COVID-19 pandemic “is over.” “What [Biden] really meant is that the very severe stage of the pandemic of having … 3,000 deaths a day—that stage is no longer present,” Fauci…


Capitol Report (Sept. 19): 60 Minutes: Biden’s First TV Interview in Months; New Rules for Transgender Minors in Virginia

Some of President Joe Biden’s remarks on his 2024 plans, the pandemic, and Taiwan depart from what the White House has said. To break down Biden’s “60 minutes” interview, we sit down with Florida Congresswoman Kat Cammack. The Biden administration returns a kidnapped American home in exchange for releasing a Taliban prisoner. The prisoner swap…


Biden Says Inflation Rose ‘Hardly at All’ as Americans Grapple With Soaring Prices

President Joe Biden downplayed the cost-of-living crisis that’s squeezing American households, arguing in a recent interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that inflation over the past several months “hasn’t spiked” and that the monthly rate of inflation was negligible. Biden made the remarks in response to a question about soaring inflation posed by CBS’s Scott Pelley,…


Biden Responds to FBI’s Raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

President Joe Biden responded to the FBI raid targeting Mar-a-Lago last month by asserting he knows nothing about the investigation into former President Donald Trump. When asked by CBS News host Scott Pelley during a “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday, Biden said he has not been told about the allegedly classified materials that were taken…


Biden Says COVID-19 Pandemic ‘Is Over’

President Joe Biden said in a new interview that the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, stoking criticism from some critics over his administration’s continued use of emergency policies. “The pandemic is over,” Biden told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired on Sept. 18. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a…


World Leaders Attend Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London

World leaders and royalty have attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London’s Westminster Abbey to mourn Britain’s longest-serving monarch, who died on Sept. 8 after 70 years on the throne. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets as the Queen’s coffin made the short journey to the abbey from Westminster Hall, where…