Since Biden took office last year, job growth has been vigorous and steady. But food and gas prices are high and inflation is at its worst level in a generation.
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Biden gets a strong jobs report, but sour mood still prevails
Analysis: The president’s approval rating remains in the low 40s, given the pandemic, inflation and the war in Ukraine.
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Another View: As Biden’s son is investigated, Biden is staying out of it. How refreshing.
The president’s behavior is a contrast to his predecessor’s campaign of obstruction in response to legitimate questions about his own foreign entanglements.
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Cheaper fares, service expansion in store for Greater Portland public transit
Transit agencies in southern Maine will ramp up service and cut fares in half for the rest of the year using $7 million in federal relief funding.
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Biden receives second booster, presses Congress on virus funds
The president used the occasion Wednesday to call on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the pandemic.
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Biden administration announces new funding to make homes energy-efficient
The plan allots funding to modernize eligible homes with cost-effective upgrades, adding insulation to attics, swapping older refrigerators and other appliances for new, more efficient models, and replacing leaky windows and doors.
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Biden makes ‘no apologies,’ says Putin remark was about ‘moral outrage’
The president’s jarring remark about Putin at the end of a Saturday speech in Warsaw intended to rally democracies for a long global struggle against autocracy, stirred controversy in the United States and rattled some allies in Western Europe.
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Biden’s Putin remark pushes U.S.-Russia relations closer to collapse
President Biden’s comments in Poland about regime change were the culmination of increasingly pointed language about Putin – ‘killer,’ ‘butcher,’ ‘war criminal’ – with serious implications for how to end the war in Ukraine and avoid a wider conflict.
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Biden budget to trim $1 trillion from deficits over next decade
It’s a sign that the government’s balance sheet will improve after a historic burst of spending to combat the coronavirus.
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U.S. to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees as Zelensky pleads for weapons
In Brussels, President Biden warns that a chemical attack by Russia ‘would trigger a response in kind.’