Joe Biden

President travels to Wisconsin to tout infrastructure bill, as Republicans support him over Russia but criticize domestic plans.

I’m afraid that he realises this is going to be a disastrous midterm election, and he just doesn’t know how to turn the ship around.” He pointed to progress against the pandemic since last year, with a dramatic reduction in cases, readily available vaccines and tests, and new therapeutics soon becoming more accessible. “The disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal did more than cost American lives; it betrayed our allies and emboldened our enemies.” Lauren Boebert, a far right Republican congresswoman, heckled: “You put them in: 13 of them!” – a reference to 13 service personnel killed during the Afghan evacuation. The national opinion poll, conducted from 28 February to 1 March, found that 43% of adults approve of Biden’s performance in office while 54% disapprove and the rest were not sure. Ukraine was inevitably the opening topic, drawing rare bipartisan support, but ultimately made up less than a fifth of Biden’s remarks.

In his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, the Democratic president embraced Republican calls to strengthen the nation's southern border and barely ...

More subscription to our online content can only help us achieve the goals of offering you even better and more relevant content. As we battle the economic impact of the pandemic, we need your support even more, so that we can continue to offer you more quality content. Even during these difficult times arising out of Covid-19, we continue to remain committed to keeping you informed and updated with credible news, authoritative views and incisive commentary on topical issues of relevance. Only 34% of Americans say the things Biden has done in office are good for Americans, according to a February AP-NORC poll. Business Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. In a potential preview of what's to come, nine-term incumbent Texas Rep. I understand the messaging tactic there," he said. First of all, nobody in our caucus ever said that before the last election. And public polling indicates that a significant portion of voters of colour do support increased funding for law enforcement. Those are the swing voters and we want to get them. And that's something that Democrats can't afford to have happen. Beyond Washington, Melina Abdullah, a grassroots director for Black Lives Matter, was more frank in her criticism.

President Joe Biden spoke to Congress in his first State of the Union address. President Biden covered a variety of topics and urged Congress to pass ...

Biden called on lowering the national deficit and stated that the Department of Justice would install a Chief Prosecutor to investigate pandemic relief fraud. Proposing a “Unity Agenda”, Biden called on Congress to ramp up the fight against the opioid epidemic, for Congress to pass a mental health package, for more support for Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and rolled out the Cancer Moonshot program. When calling for increased funding towards the Cancer Moonshot program, Biden called on Congress to fund ARPA-H, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. Biden finished his speech reporting that the state of the union was strong and called on Congress to pass his agenda. Biden stated that this would “end on [his] watch” and that Medicare would set the standards for nursing homes. On tax policy, Biden reiterated his campaign promises of increasing taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations. Biden stated that he would work to ease the potential ramifications that economic sanctions can have on the American people, noting that the U.S. and its Allies have worked to release 60 million barrels of oil around the world and 30 million barrels from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Biden invoked increasing prices for automobiles as an example of why there is a need for competition legislation. Speaking on elderly care, Biden stated that more “Wall Street firms” are engaged with nursing homes. Congress has passed the COMPETES Act and the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, however neither have been sent to the President’s desk. Quoting Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D), Biden said that “it’s time to bury the label ‘Rust Belt’”. Biden then transitioned to COVID-19 recovery and his domestic agenda. While speaking of infrastructure projects, Biden stated that he would remain steadfast towards making products in America.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro described President Joe Biden as the “Kurt Cobain of politics,” making a reference to the late rocker's suicide.

And the brains are on the wall.” “He put a shotgun in the mouth of the American body politic and then pulled the trigger. Later in the same rant, Shapiro said Biden has “had the worst 14 months of any president of the United States ever” and is “so bad at this.”

The president touted his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, that provides $40 billion for bridge investments, including $27.5 billion for states to repair ...

The president touted his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, that provides $40 billion for bridge investments, including $27.5 billion for states to repair and rehabilitate bridges. In Wisconsin they have 14,307 bridges and 987, or 6.9%, are classified as structurally deficient. Biden’s trip was part of a customary post-State of the Union blitz to showcase the administration’s plans.

American political commentator, Ben Shapiro, has just made his biggest faux pas yet. He labelled Joe Biden "the Kurt Cobain of Politics. Watch here.

We won’t go into the shortcomings of his metaphor, as we just don’t have the time, but what is interesting about it is that Shapiro’s meaning is ambiguous. A jumbled criticism of the President, it seems as if he’s trying to infer that Biden has forced American politicians to have undertaken an act of political suicide, but in truth, we’re not sure. Shapiro made the comment in response to Biden’s most recent State of the Union Address. Attempting to sound clever, as is his modus operandi, he thought he had delivered one of his best metaphors yet: “Joe Biden is the Kurt Cobain of politics.