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WH Deputy Press Secretary Says Americans Must Follow CDC Orders ‘Because The Experts Say So’ [Video]
WH Dep Press Scty: Americans Must Follow CDC Orders ‘Because The Experts Say So.’ Has literally no idea when asked how CDC is testing for the so called Delta variant With the CDC announcing a mask mandate reversal and the endless doom mongering over the dreaded Delta variant, Americans have a lot of questions, yet…
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Senators Kyrsten Sinema, Joe Manchin defend filibuster, likely crushing Biden’s hopes of passing voting rights bill
WASHINGTON – Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin doubled down on their opposition to changing the Senate’s filibuster Thursday, likely foiling President Joe Biden’s efforts to pass a voting rights bill. The Arizona moderate’s position wasn’t different than other times she defended the filibuster, a legislative hurdle that requires 60 votes to start debate…
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Sinema doubles down on filibuster support, dealing likely fatal blow to Dems’ election bills
Sinema is a longtime supporter of the filibuster. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema said Thursday that she will not vote to weaken the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, bucking her party leaders yet again and dealing a major blow to Democrats’ election reform effort. The comments, which match Sinema’s long-held stance on the filibuster, are effectively the final…
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US Supreme Court blocks Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses – a policy the conservative justices deemed an improper imposition on the lives and health of many Americans – while endorsing a separate federal vaccine requirement for healthcare facilities. Biden voiced disappointment with the conservative-majority court’s decision to halt…
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Inflation surges 7% in December, highest rate in 40 years
Economists expected inflation to rise by 7% in December. Inflation rose at the fastest pace in nearly four decades in December, as rapid price gains fueled consumer fears about the economy and sent President Biden’s approval rating tumbling. The consumer price index rose 7% in December from a year ago, according to a new Labor…
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Biden says those who oppose Democrat voting rights bill are on the side of Jefferson Davis
The president argued that the legislation was needed to ‘defend our democracy.’ President Biden Tuesday said lawmakers who oppose the Democratic-led effort to overhaul how the country conducts elections are choosing to be on the side of historical villains such as Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Biden, in an unusually vitriolic speech by a president who…
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All is not well in the transatlantic relationship
Bruce Stokes is a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. January 20 marks the end of the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency, an administration that promised to respect and rebuild the transatlantic alliance after years of neglect and disdain, that declared, “America is back.” But subsequent experience has not…
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McConnell slams Senate Democrats for invoking Jan 6 to push filibuster changes: ‘Surreal’
Schumer pushes Senate filibuster reform to secure election legislation Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Democrats in a floor speech Wednesday for using the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to justify proposed filibuster reform to pass election legislation. “It is surreal to hear sitting senators invoke Jan. 6 to justify breaking the rules to grab outcomes…
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Joe Biden says US will ‘respond decisively’ if Russia further invades Ukraine
US President Joe Biden has told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the United States will “respond decisively” if Russia further invades Ukraine. President Joe Biden said that the US and its allies would “respond decisively” if Russia further invaded Ukraine, in a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “President Biden made clear that the United…