Seniors and first responders wait in line to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the Lakes Regional Library on December 30, 2020 in Fort Myers, Florida. Octavio Jones | Getty Images The House on Monday moved forward with its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, setting the stage for passage later this week. The chamber’s Budget Committee
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Neera Tanden, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), testifies during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 10, 2021. Andrew Harnik | Pool | Reuters Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will vote against Neera Tanden’s nomination to lead the Office of Management
Judge Merrick Garland, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S. Attorney General, speaks as Biden listens while announcing his Justice Department nominees at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, January 7, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Merrick Garland is finally getting his day before the Senate. Garland, President Joe Biden‘s pick to be attorney
President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Joint Base Andrews before boarding Air Force One for his last time as President on January 20, 2021 in Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. Pete Marovich | Pool | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump is expected to deliver a keynote speech to close out the Conservative Political Action
City workers and volunteers distribute bottled water at Delmar Stadium, in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2021. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Texas as the state grapples with widespread power outages and water shortages amid freezing winter conditions, the Federal Emergency Management
Former President Donald Trump continues to rage at top Republicans who have criticized him, despite some advisors insisting he should take aim at President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders instead, according to people familiar with the matter. Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, and longtime GOP political operative Karl Rove are
Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colo., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing for Janet Yellen, of California, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Treasury Secretary in Washington, January 19, 2021. Anna Moneymaker | Pool | Reuters Two Senate Democrats have put forward a bill they hope will kick-start the process of expanding health-care coverage while the party
A health worker applies a Sinovac’s CoronaVac coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine on an elderly citzen in Sao Goncalo near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 18, 2021. Ricardo Moraes | Reuters President Joe Biden is expected to announce Friday that the U.S. will spend $4 billion on international Covid vaccination efforts, White House officials said. Biden,
The anti-Trump Lincoln Project paid a consulting firm run by former Obama deputy press secretary Bill Burton to conduct a Black voter outreach program in Pennsylvania, which turned out to be the decisive state in the 2020 election. The super PAC paid $1.5 million to the firm, BG Causes LLC, during the 2020 election cycle,
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 14, 2019. Alexei Nikolsky | Sputnik | Kremlin via Reuters UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – President Joe Biden‘s press secretary delivered a striking message to Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, this
Federal authorities said Wednesday that three North Korean computer programmers have been indicted for conducting a series of cyberattacks to attempt to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies. The programmers, who are part of a North Korean military intelligence agency, also are accused of creating
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (L) (R-KY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (R) (D-NY) stand back to back in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday blasted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speak after a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images On his path to the Oval Office, President Joe Biden commendably ran on “restoring the soul” of America, and repeatedly stressed a desire to work
U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., October 18, 2019. Leah Millis | Reuters A CNBC survey conducted in the days before former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial finds a large share of Republicans want him to remain head of their party, but a majority of Americans want him out of
In this Jan. 20, 2016 file photo, John Weaver is shown on a campaign bus in Bow, N.H. The Lincoln Project was launched in November 2019 as a super PAC that allowed its leaders to raise and spend unlimited sums of money. Charles Krupa | AP The Lincoln Project, the group of conservative operatives that
President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Senators from both parties in the White House on Feb. 11, 2021. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to strengthen gun laws on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. “Today, as we mourn
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., attends a campaign event at the Herbert W. Best VFW Post 928 in Folsom, Pa., September 23, 2016. John McCain, R-Ariz., also attend in support of Toomey. Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images WASHINGTON – Seven Republican senators alongside all Democrats found former President Donald Trump guilty on
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. Jim Bourg | Reuters The Senate on Saturday acquitted former President Donald Trump in a 57-43 vote on the charge of inciting insurrection for his role