Health officials privately worry about limited funds, worn-out front-line health workers and the dwindling receptivity of many Americans to COVID-19 precautions.
President Joe Biden
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Deficit figures set up competing visions from Biden and Republicans
This fiscal year’s budget deficit shrunk in half from last year, but the red ink soared on a monthly basis in September.
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Russia ‘shamelessly violated’ UN charter in Ukraine, Biden tells world leaders
The president also pledges $2.9 billion in global food security aid to address shortages caused by the war and the effects of climate change, in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
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Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to body’s charter
White House officials say the crux of President Joe Biden’s visit to the U.N. this year would be a full-throated condemnation of Russia as its brutal war nears the seven-month mark.
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Biden hopes ending cancer can be a ‘national purpose’ for U.S.
His speech comes as Biden seeks to rally the nation around developing treatments and therapeutics for the pervasive diseases that the CDC rank as the 2nd-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.
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John L. Micek: Biden’s Philly speech was a challenge to us all
Returning to the state where he launched his candidacy — and the one that handed him the White House in 2020 — President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Americans to join him in a fight to preserve democracy and to beat back the forces of extremism. The 30-minute address was equal parts tribute to […]
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Michael Reagan: Shooting back at President Biden
How much does President Biden dislike America? Let us count the ways. Last week, our phony uniter-in-chief called about half of the country – Republicans and all red-hatted supporters of Donald Trump – semi-fascists. His press secretary – the person who has the impossible job of trying to clarify, excuse or walk-back Biden’s daily gaffes […]
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Biden warns ‘MAGA Republicans’ are threatening democracy
Holding little back, President Joe Biden is sounding an alarm about what he views as extremist threats to the nation’s democracy from what he views as the evil force of Trumpism.
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Biden defends FBI, promotes ban on assault-style weapons
‘It’s sickening to see the new attacks on the FBI, threatening the life of law enforcement and their families, for simply carrying out the law and doing their job,’ the president tells a crowd in Pennsylvania.
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Peter Roff: Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will make things worse
Marching in lockstep, the Democrats pushed a $700 billion spending bill through Congress, claiming it would reduce inflation. We know that to be a lie. Independent analyses from the Congressional Budget Office, the Congressional Joint Tax Committee, and Penn/Wharton all show the badly misnamed Inflation Reduction Act would do little to nothing to stop the […]