Joe Biden

Posted April 22, 2021 at 6:00am President Joe Biden has emerged as a strong pro-labor voice, tapping a former union official as Labor secretary and issuing an explicit pro-union statement amid Amazon workers’ unionization bid.  Still, the president has yet to offer support to one federal employees’ union that took…

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): We’re closing in on the first 100 days of Joe Biden’s presidency (Wednesday marks Day 92). As such, it’s time for us to take a step back — along with the rest of…

Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd.Read More

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden’s administration accuses China of genocide but reached a joint pledge to cooperate on climate. The White House is also working to arrange a summit with Russia, despite imposing harsh new sanctions. Biden’s strategy is not about easing tensions, so often the stated goal of diplomacy,…

Biden's American Jobs Plan also includes money for investing in electric cars. EVs are great, but subsidies are not. Ashley Nunes  |  Opinion contributor America is going green. Recently, President Joe Biden unveiled plans to accelerate the transition toward electric cars. The move — neatly packaged as the American Jobs Plan…

Opposing View: If the White House will work with Republicans, together we can expand infrastructure and economic opportunity — instead of the federal government. John Thune  |  Opinion contributor If President Joe Biden sincerely wants to address our country’s infrastructure needs, he doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. Lawmakers historically work…

Not long after former President Donald Trump agreed with President Joe Biden's pledge of a complete withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham voiced his displeasure of Trump's remarks. He went on to bash the policies laid out by both Biden and Trump, referring to both…

President Joe Biden has for the first time described the recent surge of illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border as a crisis, in the midst of Republican-led pressure to do so. Over the weekend, Biden was asked by a reporter in Delaware about his policy on refugee admissions. “We’re going…

April 18, 20212:22 PM UTC Reuters 1 minute read It will be "very hard" for President Joe Biden's administration to meet a previous goal that would have raised the cap to 62,500 refugee admissions this fiscal year, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a television interview broadcast on…

President Joe Biden appears to be confounded by the substance and politics of immigration. The latest evidence of that is Friday's laughable-if-it-wasn't-so-serious White House backtrack of Biden's walk-back on refugee policy. After promising to raise President Donald Trump's annual cap on refugee admissions from 15,000 to 62,500, Biden balked Friday…