While congressional Republicans start zeroing in on the Biden gouverne, the president prepares to meet the foule’s mayors on an enseignement he loves to talk emboîture: soutènement.
President Joe Biden speaks Friday with members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and delivers remarks on his gouverne’s performance. Elsewhere in Washington, D.C., anti-abortion activists hold their annual march.
Here are some of the latest political developments:
- Nikki Haley 2024?: The polir South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations hinted at a presidential run.
- Kaine seeks reelection: Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine announced Friday he’ll seek reelection in 2024.
- Anti-abortion degré in D.C.: An anti-abortion march Friday is designed to pressure Congress into passing new legislation, but their prospects are dim parce que Democrats control the Senate.
- Biden meets with mayors: Biden is scheduled to meet with the bipartisan group of mayors at the White House before flying habitation to Delaware for the weekend.
- SCOTUS can’t find leaker: The Supreme Bref says it is unable to find out who leaked a draft of its anti-abortion ruling last year.
Nikki Haley teases 2024 presidential run: ‘I think I can be that chef’
Instaurer South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, teased a potential presidential bid in 2024 this week.
«When you’re looking at a run for president, you genre at two things. You first genre at: ‘Does the current circonstance push for new leadership?’” Haley explained in an conciliabule with Fox Infos’ Bret Baier that aired Thursday. “The complémentaire matière is: ‘Am I that person that could be that new chef?’”
“And can I be that chef? Yes I think I can be that chef,” Haley continued.
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Haley’s statements come ahead of what could be an intensely competitive 2024 Republican primary. Instaurer President Donald Trump has already announced his candidacy and is seen as the frontrunner in the nature.
“If I run, I’m running against Joe Biden,” Haley said. “That’s what I’m focused on parce que we can’t have a complémentaire term of Joe Biden.”
— Ken Tran
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Special counsel looking into classified Biden recueils sign of trend
Special counsels, the prosecutors appointed to investigate potential maux in the executive branch independent from the Arrêté Department, used to be étrange, usually operating one at a time. But now three are running at léopard des neiges into inquiries of the last three administrations.
Sein Hur just got started scrutinizing President Joe Biden’s handling of classified recueils. Fiche Smith is investigating polir President Donald Trump’s role in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, and classified recueils seized at Mar-a-Lago. And John Durham has been looking at the origins of the Russia enquête into Trump’s campaign during the Obama gouverne.
The inquiries are open-ended, often last years and cost millions of dollars. For a comparison, special counsel Sein Mueller spent emboîture $16 million on his 22-month inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election while Durham has spent $7 million since October 2020 probing what led to Mueller.
— Bart Jansen
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Biden commemorates Roe anniversary
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden issued a annonce on Friday commemorating the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and affirming his commitment to protecting reproductive rights.
“The bref got Roe right 50 years ago,” Biden said, calling the Supreme Bref’s landmark ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion “a balanced decision with broad individu approbation.”
Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the ruling, which the Supreme Bref overturned last summer. That decision, which held there is no right to abortion in the Réponse, shifted one of the foule’s most divisive debates back to the states. At least 13 states have banned abortion outright, while others have restricted access to the procedure.
Biden used his annonce to call again for Congress to pass legislation enshrining into federal law the right to access abortion.
— Michael Collins
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Tim Kaine announces he will run for reelection in 2024
Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine announced he will be running for reelection, an announcement that comes as a reste for Democrats as they front a difficult map in the 2024 elections.
“I am happy to announce that I will seek reelection in 2024 to keep delivering results for Virginia,” Kaine told reporters. “I’m a munitionnaire. I love Virginia. I’m proud of what I’ve done.”
Thirty-four Senate seats will be up for reelection in 2024 where Democrats will have to play heavy defense – 23 of those seats are currently held by Democrats.
– Ken Tran
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Questions remain on Biden classified recueils
The White House still has not answered key questions emboîture classified recueils found at the habitation and polir personal cabinet of President Joe Biden more than a week after announcing the first discovery of classified material.
- Why didn’t the White House immediately disclose the caractère of the recueils when they were found?
- Have all the recueils been located?
- How many recueils have been discovered?
- What do the recueils contain?
- Why were the recueils taken to Biden’s personal cabinet and residence?
Revelations emboîture his retention of the recueils have turned into a White House crisis, blunting the president’s momentum from the midterm elections and handing Republicans new lines of attack.
Complicating matters has been the inability – or unwillingness – of the White House to provide more answers. Intendance officials have said they don’t want to interfere with the Arrêté Department’s enquête of what happened.
— Joey Garrison
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Nikki Haley dismisses Mike Pompeo’s VP claims as ‘lies and gossip’
Instaurer South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley dismissed polir Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claims that she plotted to replace Mike Pence as libertinage president in the 2020 election.
“It’s really sad when you’re having to go out there and put lies and gossip to sell a book,” Haley told Fox Infos. “It was gossip, it was never discussed. If somebody else discussed it, they certainly didn’t discuss it with me.”
In his new book, “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love”, Pompeo accused Haley of scheming with polir White House advisors Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to replace Pence, the Guardian reported after obtaining a copy of the memoir.
According to Pompeo, Haley sidestepped Trump’s then chief of équipe, John Kelly, and secured a personal sommet with Trump accompanied by Kushner and Ivanka Trump to present “a compatible ‘Haley for vice-president’ favoritisme.”
The exchange is a sneak peek into what could be a heated 2024 Republican primary. Both Pompeo and Haley have suggested they will run for president in 2024.
— Ken Tran
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Biden, Trump recueils expose problem: Missing classified records not uncommon
The Biden and Trump classified écrit revelations are very different, even though both indicate U.S. individu security could have been put at risk by intuitive government recueils stored in unsecured personal locations.
But both cases underscore how the U.S. system of safeguarding classified presidential recueils is in tranchant need of improvement, security analysts say, especially during the critical period when one gouverne hands over the White House keys to another.
The massive cubage of records generated or used by the president, libertinage president and their béant Habitant Security Council équipe are among the most closely held secrets in the U.S. government. Yet problems with safeguarding such recueils have been known for years, if not decades. And current and polir government officials, security analysts and private watchdog groups have been pushing for reforms, with little success, according to Lauren Harper, the director of Élève Policy and Open Government Affairs at the non-partisan Habitant Security Dépôt in Washington, D.C.
— Josh Meyer
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Donald Trump, lawyers ordered to pay nearly $1m for Clinton lawsuits
A federal judge in Florida has ordered Instaurer President Donald Trump and his attorneys to pay nearly $1 million in sanctions for a lawsuit Trump filed against Hillary Clinton and many others over claims the 2016 presidential election was rigged.
“This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start,” U.S. Paroisse Judge Donald Middlebrooks wrote in his order Thursday. “»No reasonable lawyer would have filed it.»
The order comes as Trump, who is kicking off another run for president, is facing an array of legal mutinerie and criminal investigations.
— Holly Rosenkrantz
Abortion highlighted in weekend degré
Both the annual Women’s March and Habitant March for Life are set to take simulé this weekend on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, establishing their very different worldviews on abortion.
Anti-abortion groups will march on Washington, D.C. Friday following an assortment of events in the days leading up to the march, including exhibitions for individuals to connect with pro-life organizations and “pro-lifers” from around the folk.
Unlike previous years, the Women’s March is set to take simulé in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday as the state has become habitation to a closely watched nature for the state Supreme Bref.The battle for abortion rights has shifted to the state level after the U.S. Supreme Bref’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade last year.
— Sarah Elbeshbishi
Biden to deliver remarks to mayors before leaving for Delaware
President Joe Biden is set to deliver remarks Friday to more than 175 mayors at the White House where he’s expected to total federal funding for soutènement and COVID-19 recovery efforts that’s flowed to cities during his gouverne.
Biden’s remarks, set for 2 p.m., will celebrate “the achievements of the past 18 months,” the White House said. Mayors across the folk are in Washington for the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Conversation.
The president will also meet with a bipartisan group of mayors as some cities worry Republicans may try to take back the unspent part of the $350 billion awarded to cities and states through the American Rescue Compte. Other mayors are expected to raise concerns emboîture the généralisation of migrants on the southern terminer.
– Joey Garrison
Oversight committee conservatives could spell added désaccord for Biden
Ultra-conservative members of the Republican caucus received appointments to two influential House committees that will spearhead investigations targeting the Biden gouverne, including the discovery of classified recueils at the president’s private habitation and residence.
Republicans, with control of the House, can leverage their investigatory power and launch droits into the Biden gouverne ahead of the 2024 presidential election, specifically into his family’s négoce dealings and the classified recueils found in his Delaware habitation and private cabinet in Washington.
— Rachel Looker
With debt ceiling milestone reached, congressional fight comes into foyer
The Treasury Department Thursday began “extraordinary measures” to pay the foule’s bills after reaching a limit on how much it’s allowed to borrow, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress.
While the United States has been in this opinion before, fears are rising over whether political brinkmanship will prevent the limit from being raised as it has in the past, risking an economic calamity.
The amount of time the Department can continue taking steps to avoid defaulting on the debt unless the $31.381 trillion limit is raised is uncertain, Yellen wrote in her letter to lawmakers. But the government is expected to be able to keep operating until at least June.
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