Tag: Joe Biden

2 Plead Guilty to Charges After Handling Diary of President Joe Biden’s Daughter

Two Florida residents on Aug. 25 pleaded guilty to federal charges over their handling of a diary penned by President Joe Biden’s daughter. Aimee Harris, 40, of Palm Beach, and Robert Kurlander, 58, of Jupiter, each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property. According to prosecutors, Biden’s daughter was…


US Watched Closely Over Canada’s Handling of Vaccine Mandates for Truckers: Feds’ Internal Emails

Internal emails from the Canadian Embassy in Washington disclosed it was under careful watch by U.S. officials over how it would handle vaccine mandates required for truckers after the measures were first announced by the Trudeau government last November. The emails, released through Access to Information, contained “inquiries from the White House” regarding a Jan….


Biden Student Loan Forgiveness to Cost Roughly $500 Billion: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive thousands of dollars in student debt for millions of Americans and adjust repayment for others will cost roughly $500 billion, according to a nonprofit that analyzes such plans. Biden says he will cancel up to $10,000 of student debt owed to the federal government for households earning less than…


Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness to Benefit White House Staffers: Watchdog

A watchdog group claims President Joe Biden’s newly announced student loan forgiveness scheme stands to benefit a number of Biden appointees who qualify for the debt wipeout scheme that Republicans have panned as “wildly unfair redistribution.” Taxpayers will absorb up to $10,000 in outstanding student debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 per year under…


Biden Announces New Secret Service Director

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that he will appoint Kim Cheatle as the next director of the U.S. Secret Service. Cheatle has worked for the Secret Service for more than 25 year, including serving in Biden’s security detail when he was vice president in the Obama administration, before moving to the private sector. “I…


Utah Sues Biden Over Boundaries of Vast National Monuments

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has filed a lawsuit to challenge President Joe Biden’s alleged unlawful designation of two national monuments, the state’s Republican governor, Spencer J. Cox, said Wednesday. Cox’s government is moving to undo Biden’s decision to restore the original size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah which former President Donald…


Biden Says He Had No Advance Notice of FBI Raid on Trump’s Resort

President Joe Biden said on Aug. 24 that he did not know of the FBI’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s resort until after it happened. “I didn’t have any advance notice. None. Zero. Not one single bit,” Biden told reporters during an unrelated press conference in Washington. The White House previously said that Biden…


Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19 Again in ‘Rebound’ Case

First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 in what appears to be a rebound case after taking Paxlovid, according to her office on Wednesday. “After testing negative on Tuesday, just now, the First Lady has tested positive for COVID-19 by antigen testing,” the first lady’s spokeswoman, Kelsey Donohue, said in a statement. “This represents…


Judge Blocks Biden Admin’s Emergency Abortion Rule in Texas

A federal judge blocked the White House late Tuesday from enforcing guidance in Texas to require hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of state laws. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock agreed with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) guidance was unauthorized and went…


Biden Admin to Cancel $10,000 of Student Loan Debt for Millions, Despite Inflation Concerns

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will spend hundreds of billions of dollars to pay off at least $10,000 in federal student loan debt for each borrower, despite widespread worries that the move will worsen the inflation crisis. Individuals earning less than $125,000 a year or families earning less than $250,000 will be eligible…