Around the time that Democratic leaders were secretly negotiating the details of President Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Democratic Party megadonor James Simons’s hedge fund substantially upped its financial stake in several solar energy companies, which reaped windfalls from the bill. According to federal elections filings, eight days before Senate majority leader Chuck
After a disastrous performance in the first presidential debate on Thursday that spurred calls from Democrats for a new candidate, President Joe Biden is “not dropping out” and will continue his reelection bid. “Of course he’s not dropping out,” Biden campaign spokesman Seth Schuster said in a text message to the Hill after the debate. Biden
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, handing a defeat to President Joe Biden’s administration. The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of fishing companies that challenged a government-run program partly funded by industry that monitored overfishing of herring off New
CNN commentators did not think the first 2024 debate went well for President Joe Biden, with Van Jones saying the octogenarian’s performance was “painful.” The Democratic Party, Jones said, has time “to figure out a different way forward.” “I love that guy,” Jones said. “But he had a test to meet tonight to restore confidence
Column: It tolls for Joe Biden. (Reuters/Emily Elconin) It was clear within the first few minutes that the presidential debate was not going to go well for President Joe Biden. His breath was heavy, his voice was raspy and faint, his physical bearing poor. When he wasn’t speaking, his mouth was agape. His answers rambled,
Former president Donald Trump during Thursday night’s presidential debate boasted of killing “the two greatest terrorists, biggest terrorists anywhere in the world.” After President Joe Biden referenced the deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019, saying a terrorist “came along and killed three under [Trump’s] administration,” Trump countered by highlighting the deaths of
The octogenarian president appeared to lose his train of thought during his answer President Joe Biden appeared to claim victory over Medicare during Thursday night’s debate against former President Donald Trump. Biden boasted that he “finally beat Medicare” during a rambling remark defending his proposal to raise taxes on billionaires, which he said would raise