by Saul Pink | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden touted the recent decrease in crossings at the southern border while urging Congress to pass bipartisan immigration reform at the State of the Union address Tuesday. “If you won’t pass my comprehensive immigration reform, at least pass...
by Kate Walter | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON- Speaking in front of a divided Congress for the first time during his presidency, President Joe Biden rooted his State of the Union address in bipartisan appeals, while also drawing a distinct contrast between Democrat and Republican priorities. The...
by Julia Narvaez Munguia | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON— Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-Ark.) denounced President Biden, citing that he is the first president to “surrender to a woke mob” in a Republican response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. The former White House press secretary in the...
by Joanna Hou | Feb 8, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden highlighted the progress his administration has made in education access and called for improved mental health access for the nation’s youth at the State of the Union Tuesday. Biden said a well-educated workforce helps the U.S. stay...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden focused his second State of the Union address on the need for unity and “finishing the job” to help the U.S. bring down inflation, improve health care access and confront national security threats. Biden started out by promoting his...
by Davis Giangiulio | Feb 7, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Boosted by a strong jobs report last week and declining inflation, President Joe Biden in his second State of the Union Address touted his economic plan which he says is working. Despite suffering a difficult first two years in office with the highest...
by Jacob Wendler | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– President Joe Biden underscored America’s steadfast support for Ukraine during his second State of the Union address Tuesday night, noting the administration’s actions to date and committing to standing by its ally. Just weeks before the one-year...
by Emiliana Betancourt | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. relations with China have grown tense lately, especially after the U.S. shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon. A balloon that “was purposely launched as a calculated show of force,” Rep. Mark Rogers declared Tuesday at an Armed Services Committee...
by Avani Kalra | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden introduced a plan to tackle the country’s opioid overdose crisis, which is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year, in his State of the Union address Tuesday. Biden said that the country will launch a “major surge” to stop fentanyl...
by Caroline Neal | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Invited guests of the president and first lady at the State of the Union – like the family of Tyre Nichols and U2 lead singer Bono – may grab much of the attention tonight. But each member of Congress can also invite a guest to sit in the chamber, and...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – A crowd of Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) constituents gathered outside his office in the Capitol Tuesday afternoon to deliver a petition calling for his expulsion, as the embattled freshman congressman faces continued scrutiny. “Santos exploited the...
by Jacob Wendler | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Armed Services raised new worries about China’s threats to U.S. national defense and prospects for possible confrontation over Taiwan in the wake of the public’s attention over a suspected Chinese spy balloon that traversed the...
