Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
White House to tap business leaders to push Republicans on debt ceiling – source
By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is asking business leaders to meet with President Joe Biden on Wednesday about the need to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, according to a person famil...
Oct 05, 2021
Attorneys file ethics complaint against ex-Justice official over plot to help Trump
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of prominent attorneys on Tuesday filed an ethics complaint against Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a former top Justice Department official who is under invest...
Oct 05, 2021
Ex-Giuliani associate Parnas pleads not guilty as trial looms, politics weigh
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lev Parnas, who helped Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani collect damaging information about Joe Biden before the Democrat won the 2020 presidential el...
Oct 05, 2021
Biden had ‘productive discussion’ with House Democrats on spending bills -White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden had a "productive discussion" with a group of moderate Democratic members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday about the $1 trillion infrastructure bil...
Oct 05, 2021
Factbox: How could America’s debt ceiling showdown play out?
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress is locked in a standoff that risks triggering a financial and economic meltdown if lawmakers don't raise a limit on government borrowing before ...
Oct 05, 2021
Schumer sets U.S. debt ceiling vote for Wednesday as tensions rise
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate will vote on Wednesday on a Democratic-backed measure to suspend the U.S. debt ceiling, a key lawmaker said on Tuesday, as partisan brinkmanship in Co...
Oct 05, 2021
U.S. senators suggest expelling 300 Russian diplomats amid embassy dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic and Republican senators urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to expel 300 Russian diplomats from the United States if Moscow does not issue more visas for Americ...
Oct 05, 2021
Treasury’s Yellen: ‘Up to the president’ to decide on Fed chief appointment
(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday declined to say whether she would support a reappointment of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for a second term, saying it's up to Presid...
Oct 05, 2021
Biden-appointed Dubai Expo boss to lobby Congress to end world fair funding ban
By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. Commissioner General to the Expo in Dubai Robert Clark, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, said on Tuesday that he would lobby Congress to pass legi...
Oct 05, 2021
Biden looks to shift focus from D.C. gridlock to swing-state benefits
By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will hit the road on Tuesday to try to shift the spotlight from the wrangling within his Democratic Party over his hu...
Oct 05, 2021
