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In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will be able to tout environmental wins, but any further federal action will largely depend on the pace set by the executive branch. In his speech last year Biden largely discussed climate in the context of savings that energy efficiency…

The US transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, rejected Republican criticism of Joe Biden over the eight-day wait to shoot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon which flew over military sites. “The president gave instructions to have it shot down in a way that was safe,” Buttigieg told CNN’s State of the…

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden will use his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to remind Americans of how their lives have been improved over his first two years in office, as he tries to confront pessimism in the country and navigate the tricky politics of a newly…

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Republicans were being “hypocritical” when criticizing President Joe Biden on the Chinese balloon incident. Booker said, “Well, I want to make one more point about this. I think what is problematic when Democrat or Republican have one standard…

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President Joe Biden's Intelligence Advisory Board now includes a top climate scientist. Biden recently announced the appointment of Kim Cobb, an earth sciences professor at Brown University and a lead author of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, released in 2021, to the White House council that's…

Ramirez said Sanders’ selection marked a doubling down of Republican “extremism,” pointing to her record as White House press secretary defending President Donald Trump and as a conservative governor. “That gives Democrats an opportunity — if we can seize it,” Ramirez added. The progressive minor party has offered responses to…

Neither Scott nor any other congressional Republican was invited to what’s seen as the opening act of policing discussions after Nichols’ death last month following a brutal beating by Memphis officers: Thursday’s Black Caucus meeting with President Joe Biden. The all-Democratic invite list went out despite the House’s record-high four…

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met face-to-face Wednesday for more than an hour of highly anticipated budget talks – “a good first meeting,” the new Republican leader said – but expectations were low for quick progress as GOP lawmakers push for steep cuts in a deal to…

Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he believes he can come to agreement with President Joe Biden on raising the nation's debt ceiling but refused to lay out the cuts he wants to federal spending and wouldn't give details about what the two men talked about in their Oval Office meeting on…