Tag: Joe Biden

Australian Clean Energy Billionaire Meets With Biden, Manchin Over Hydrogen

Australia iron ore billionaire Andrew Forrest has met with U.S President Joe Biden and Democrat Joe Manchin to discuss a future of hydrogen. On April 3, Australia’s richest man spent an hour at the White House with Biden in a working meeting involving the commander-in-chief and his senior officials to discuss his ongoing plan to…


Biden ‘Confident’ Son Hunter Biden Didn’t Break the Law: White House Chief of Staff

President Joe Biden believes that Hunter Biden, his son, didn’t break the law, said White House chief of staff Ron Klain in an interview on Sunday. “Of course the president is confident that his son didn’t break the law,” Klain told ABC News’ “This Week” in response to renewed discussion about his overseas business ties…


Capitol Report (April 1): Doubts on Legalizing Weed Remain in GOP

The unemployment rate is nearing pre-pandemic lows, but business owners are struggling to hire qualified workers. The labor force added 430,000 new jobs in March. Some states have already legalized marijuana, and Friday, lawmakers on Capitol Hill took action to legalize it on the federal level. We’ve reached a new milestone on our road to recovery…


Is Biden’s Budget Proposal Fiscally Sound?

President Joe Biden is advertising his 2023 budget proposal as being fiscally solvent, but critics say claims that it lowers the deficit are misleading. When Biden first announced the budget plan Monday he listed “fiscal responsibility” as its first value, noting a more than $350 billion cut to the deficit last year and a projected…


Biden Admin Announces End to Title 42 Illegal Immigration Rule

The Biden administration on Friday said it will soon terminate the Title 42 public health policy that has been used for the past two years to quickly expel illegal immigrants at the southern U.S. border, amid fears of a significant wave of migrants approaching in the coming months. “After considering current public health conditions and an…


Lawmakers Demand Hunter Biden’s Communications With Obama White House

Several GOP lawmakers sent more letters to the Biden administration demanding records of any communication between Hunter Biden and the White House. “Hunter Biden’s connections throughout the Russian sphere of influence have now become especially relevant in the fast-moving and developing Russian war in Ukraine,” the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said in their letters…


Capitol Report (March 31): Hunter Biden’s deal with CCP backed energy firm

In a bid to ease the burden of rising gas prices, President Joe Biden announced the biggest ever release of U.S. emergency oil reserves. What will the long-term impacts be and will it lower gas costs in the near future? The top U.S. trade negotiator is saying to turn the page on the old playbook, as…


US Households Brace for $5,200 Inflation Tax in 2022, Estimate Warns

U.S. households will face an average of $5,200 in additional costs in 2022 from a year ago as 40-year high inflation hurts Americans’ wallets, a new estimate finds. The top quintile of households will brace for approximately $10,000 in cost pressures, while the bottom quintile will grapple with roughly $2,300 in more inflationary expenses. More…


Biden to Release 180 Million Barrels of Oil From Reserve

President Joe Biden is announcing Thursday that the United States will release an unprecedented 180 million barrels of oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next several months. The oil will be put out into the market at a pace of one million barrels per day on average for the next six…


Walk Forward Better

Commentary It’s an old Washington political trick. When you’re in trouble, change the subject. When President Biden’s poll numbers are low and falling, when the economy has produced the worst inflation in four decades and gas prices in some states have reached record highs, when he claims we should expect food shortages and produces gaffes…