Category Archives: (Sandbox) Politics
Biden to meet Democratic lawmakers on COVID-19 aid: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will on Wednesday meet congressional Democrats preparing to advance his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan despite Republican pushback. A Democrat himse...
Feb 03, 2021
Biden to meet with Democratic lawmakers on COVID-19 aid: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with fellow Democrats in Congress on Wednesday to discuss ongoing efforts to pass COVID-19 relief legislations, the White House said in a stat...
Feb 03, 2021
House Republicans face identity dilemma in fights over Liz Cheney, Marjorie Taylor Greene
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday face questions about whether to discipline a pair of strikingly different Representatives Liz Cheney and Marjorie ...
Feb 03, 2021
House Republican lawmakers seek to remove Omar from committee assignments – Fox News
(Reuters) - House Republican lawmakers are seeking this week to oust U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, from her committee assignments as Democrats push for similar action agai...
Feb 03, 2021
Biden’s White House will look into Trump’s visitor logs and whether it can release them
By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday it would look into whether it can make visitor logs from former President Donald Trump's administration publi...
Feb 02, 2021
Exclusive: Yellen to name ex-IMF official Lipton to senior Treasury role, sources say
By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Lipton, an economist who served as a senior official at the International Monetary Fund and U.S. Treasury, will return to government serv...
Feb 02, 2021
Biden Homeland Security nominee Mayorkas heads toward U.S. Senate confirmation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Alejandro Mayorkas to head the Department of Homeland Security, meaning he will become the first Latino and immigrant t...
Feb 02, 2021
Pentagon purges advisory boards after flurry of Trump end-of-term appointees
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stripped several hundred appointees of their posts on Pentagon advisory boards, a number of whom took offic...
Feb 02, 2021
White House says it needs time to put in place a ‘moral’, ‘humane’ immigration process
By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House needs time to put in place a "moral" immigration process that will treat people humanely, press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tu...
Feb 02, 2021
Trump uses impeachment response to vent about election defeat
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday found a new outlet to air his unfounded claims about voter fraud, using his legal response to impeachment charges again...
Feb 02, 2021
