Biden clearly linked the aftermath of the pandemic – with shipping lanes clogged, goods scarce and people shut in and working remotely – to the economic problems he faced. But he also blamed Russian President Valdimir Putin’s 2023 invasion of neighboring Ukraine for driving up energy prices, adding to inflation.
President Joe Biden told the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on Thursday that he wasn't declaring victory, but the country had entered a new phase of its recovery from the pandemic.
Polls show Americans remain deeply worried about the economy and inflation, with Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the Democratic nominee when Biden bowed out of the race in July, and Republican former President Donald Trump essentially deadlocked less than seven weeks before the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
The White House signaled that President Joe Biden has no immediate plans to rollback his executive order restricting asylum applications.
Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden worked to shore up support among key constituencies during separate events Monday, an example of their strategic attempt to divide and conquer the campaign trail with the race to November heating up.
The former president emphasized the words “a woman” by sitting up straight and putting both hands in front of him, lightly cupping the air.
Iranian hackers stole sensitive information from the Trump campaign earlier this summer and emailed it to individuals affiliated with the Biden campaign, U.S. investigators revealed Wednesday.
Although the union did not explicitly back former President Donald Trump, he viewed the decision to not endorse the Vice President as a victory.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have repeatedly touted on the campaign trail their efforts to lower drug prices, including a $2,000 limit on Medicare enrollees’ out-of-pocket prescription costs that starts in January.
But there's no evidence such issues occurred at the event held at the Shanksville Fire Station on Sept. 11 to honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Shanksville is a town close to where one of the four hijacked planes crashed.