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• NEA staff goes on strike; Biden cancels speech before group

  05-07-2024 16:42 via thehill.com
  
  The National Education Association Staff Organizations (NEASO) announced Friday it is going on strike, prompting President Biden to cancel a planned speech before the NEA's convention.The NEASO said they were on a Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike against the NEA headquarters in Washington, D.C., filing two ULP complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.  The group alleges the country's largest teachers’ union has not bargained over unilateral changes, accusing the NEA of wa
  
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• Democratic lawmaker doubts Biden would finish a second term  

  11-07-2024 00:59 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Wednesday said he does not think President Biden would finish out a second term, just days after he publicly called on the president to withdraw from the 2024 race.  “I think right now, as I said, he's more than capable of doing the job,” Smith said on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” "If you ask my honest opinion given his health, do I think he can serve out the full four years, no. I really don't.” “I don't know. I'
  
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• Blumenauer becomes ninth House Democrat calling for Biden to step aside

  11-07-2024 00:44 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) on Wednesday became the ninth House Democrat to publicly call for President Biden to withdraw from the race, adding to a growing chorus of lawmakers who have expressed concerns about the president’s — and the party’s — chances in November. “The question before the country is whether the president should continue his candidacy for re-election. This is not just about extending his presidency but protecting democracy,” Blumenau
  
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• Pelosi suggests Biden could still exit race, as more cracks emerge in Democratic support

  11-07-2024 00:21 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden faced a new round of setbacks on Wednesday in his campaign to rally Democrats behind his reelection bid, as fresh signals of discontent — and new doubts about his ability to defeat Donald Trump — emerged on and off of Capitol Hill.In the House, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made waves in suggesting Biden — who has been steadfast in his decision to remain on the ticket — still has a decision to make. In the upper chamber, Sen. Tim Kaine (
  
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• Luna moves to force vote on fining Garland $10,000 per day

  11-07-2024 00:03 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Wednesday moved to force a vote on her resolution to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in “inherent contempt” of Congress and fine him $10,000 for each day that he declines to turn over audio from President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur over his handling of classified documents.House leaders, who had two legislative days to act on the matter, held an immediate vote on tabling the measure — which failed 207-209 &md
  
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• House passes bill to ban noncitizens from voting in federal elections

  10-07-2024 23:38 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans and a handful of Democrats on Wednesday approved a bill that seeks to expand proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states, legislation that has been touted by former President Trump.The legislation — formally titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act — cleared the chamber in a 221-198 vote, with five Democrats voting yes. It now heads to the Senate, where it is all b
  
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• Arizona Democrat reveals he’s finished cancer treatment  

  10-07-2024 23:37 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Wednesday announced he has finished his cancer treatment and is awaiting clearance from his doctors to resume travel to Washington, D.C. “Today, I’m happy to share that I’ve finished my cancer treatment for now and continue working to get physically stronger,” Grijalva wrote in a post on the social platform X, which included a photo of himself sitting in front of a laptop at a desk.  The Arizona Democrat announced in April
  
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• EPA chief spars with Boebert over Chevron decision: 'Do you understand the ruling?'

  10-07-2024 23:33 via thehill.com
  
  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan clashed with conservative firebrand Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) during a tense House hearing — asking her if she understood the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned a legal precedent known as the Chevron doctrine.Boebert, during an Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, asked Regan whether the EPA would repeal any “unconstitutional regulations” enacted by “rogue bureaucrats” because
  
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• House appropriations panel clears HHS bill that cuts agency funding

  10-07-2024 23:06 via thehill.com
  
  The House Appropriations Committee Wednesday advanced on a party-line vote legislation that would slash funding for the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2025 by $7.5 billion, or 6.4 percent, below the fiscal year 2024 level. The bill cleared the committee 31 to 25 and now heads to the House floor, which is scheduled to vote on it the week of July 29.  The funding levels in the bill are far from final, as the Senate is likely to pass a significantly different vers
  
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• New York lieutenant governor says Biden should stop campaign

  10-07-2024 22:58 via thehill.com
  
  New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado (D) said Wednesday that President Biden should step out of the presidential race, expressing concern about his ability to beat former President Trump in November.“President Biden deserves our eternal gratitude for what he has accomplished. By defeating [former President Trump] in 2020, and leading our nation's recovery out of the pandemic, he has helped to restore faith in America both at home and abroad,” Delgado, also a former House member, said in
  
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• Pelosi snaps at reporter asking about Biden: ‘Am I speaking English to you?’

  10-07-2024 22:46 via thehill.com
  
  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) snapped at a reporter who was asking her questions Wednesday while walking down a hallway about whether she believes President Biden should stay in the race.Pelosi told ABC News reporter Rachel Scott that she would not be making comments in the hallway about “the fate of our nation.” As Scott continued to question her about Biden's re-election, Pelosi stopped and turned to the reporter.
  “Am I speaking English to you? I’m not going to
  
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• Rep. Wexton unveils AI recreation of voice

  10-07-2024 21:58 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) recreation of her voice Wednesday as she battles a neurodegenerative disease that has "robbed" her of her "full voice."Wexton, who has said she has progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), said in a post on the social platform X Wednesday that “AI has allowed me to make a new model of my voice like it was before my PSP.”“For those of you who heard me speak before PSP robbed me of my full voice, you may think you
  
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• Trump says Pelosi trying to convince voters Biden is a 'mental giant'

  10-07-2024 21:07 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump said Wednesday that Speaker Emarita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is “trying to convince anyone that will listen that” President Biden “is a mental giant.”“Crazy Nancy Pelosi is more of a cognitive mess than Sleepy Crooked Joe. She also suffers from a terminal case of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday.“She is a total nut job, who impeached me TWICE, and lost. Now I see her going around, barely, and s
  
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• Trump offers support for Luna push to hold Garland in contempt

  10-07-2024 21:04 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump expressed support for Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s (R-Fla.) effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt.Luna signaled that she plans to move to call up her resolution to hold Garland in “inherent contempt” of Congress sometime this week. The Florida Republican has criticized the Justice Department's refusal to turn over the audio from President Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur about his handling of classified documents,
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez files impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Thomas, Alito

  10-07-2024 20:14 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, citing their “pattern of refusal to recuse” themselves from matters to which they are connected and their “failure to disclose” millions of dollars in gifts over decades."The unchecked corruption crisis on the Supreme Court has now spiraled into a Constitutional crisis threatening American democracy writ large,”
  
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• Ritchie Torres calls for 'serious reckoning' over Biden: 'Blindness is not bliss'

  10-07-2024 19:35 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday called for a “serious reckoning” among Democrats over whether to keep President Biden as the party’s nominee.“In determining how to proceed as a party, there must be a serious reckoning with the down-ballot effect of whomever we nominate,” Torres said in a post on the social platform X.“What matters is not how we feel but what the numbers tell us,” he added.Torres warned of the potential down-ballot consequences
  
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• Vulnerable House Democrat calls on Biden to step aside in 2024 race

  10-07-2024 18:21 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), a vulnerable House Democrat, is calling on President Biden to step aside in the 2024 race, becoming the eighth lawmaker in the lower chamber to urge the incumbent to withdraw.Ryan — who represents New York's 18th Congressional District — told The New York Times in an interview published Wednesday that he does not believe Biden is the strongest Democrat to take on former President Trump in November.“I’d be doing a grave disservice if I said he was t
  
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• Republicans have 65 percent chance of winning House

  10-07-2024 17:57 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans have a two-thirds chance of retaining their House majority in November, a warning sign for Democrats as President Biden struggles to tamp down concerns over the impact of his candidacy downballot, according to a Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) forecast released Tuesday. DDHQ noted that the chances of the GOP winning the House rose 1 percentage point since its forecast this week, with Republicans seen as the favorite to win 11 out of 16 toss-up races. The forecast comes less than t
  
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• Biden points to Texas leaders over delay in Beryl aid

  10-07-2024 17:18 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden blamed the federal government's delay in releasing aid to Texas in response to Hurricane Beryl on state leaders, saying they did not make a formal request for a major former disaster declaration.“I've been trying to track down the governor to see — I don't have any authority to do that without a specific request from the governor,” Biden said Tuesday in an interview with the Houston Chronicle.Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is serving as acting governor of the Lo
  
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• Congressional Black Caucus member breaks with colleagues, airs Biden concerns

  10-07-2024 16:06 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) is urging vulnerable Democrats to break with President Biden if they need in order to win reelection. In an interview with CNN, Veasey said vulnerable Democrats need to “do whatever it is they need to do” to win reelection, even if that means distancing themselves from Biden. “My concerns are the concerns that everybody has,” Veasey said. “What I said this morning and expressed to my colleagues, particularly from members on the f
  
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• White House now says Biden saw neurologist during January physical

  10-07-2024 15:17 via thehill.com
  
  The White House clarified Tuesday that President Biden saw Dr. Kevin Cannard, a neurologist, on Jan. 17 as part of his annual physical.Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had signaled to reporters during the daily press briefing Tuesday that the January meeting was not part of Biden’s physical, but later confirmed that it was.“Because the date was not mentioned in the question, I want to be clear that the January 17th meeting between Dr. O’Connor and Dr. Cannard was fo
  
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• Playwright opens up about off-Broadway show inspired by Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez

  10-07-2024 15:00 via thehill.com
  
  A new play inspired by Reps. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) — and penned by a former House staffer — aims to show a fictionalized version of how the two Democrats "challenge each other and work through their differences.""I wasn't trying to do a biographical play of either of these women, who are fascinating and complicated in their own right. Instead, I wanted to write about the ideas that they sometimes push forward together," said Mario Correa, the playw
  
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• Pelosi says it's up to Biden 'to decide if he's going to run'

  10-07-2024 14:17 via thehill.com
  
  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said it is ultimately up to President Biden "to decide if he's going to run" as the president faces increasing calls to step aside following a lackluster debate performance last month.
  "It's up to the president to decide if he is going to run," Pelosi said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," when asked if Biden has her support to lead the Democratic Party in November. "We're all encouraging him to make that decision. Because time is running short.""But he's
  
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• The Memo: Could Trump — and the Republican convention — give some respite to Biden?

  10-07-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden might get some respite from an unexpected quarter next week — the GOP.The Republican National Convention kicks off Monday in Milwaukee, building to its Thursday finale when former President Trump is set to formally accept the party’s presidential nomination.There will be multiple attacks on Biden and his record, of course.But the media focus on the convention will at least dilute the concentration on whether Biden will survive as the Democratic Party’s nomi
  
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• Republicans happily watch Democratic turmoil over Biden

  10-07-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans watching Democrats grapple with President Biden's political future are glad to be on the sidelines of an internal brawl that has the potential to weaken Biden and his party. GOP lawmakers say they're not watching the fighting with any glee, but they are glad the media frenzy surrounds their political opponents. And they clearly think the infighting has a chance to help them. Printouts at a House GOP press conference on Tuesday highlighted headlines about Democrats and
  
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• Biden to meet with union leaders amid effort to solidify base following debate

  10-07-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will meet with national union leaders on Wednesday, huddling with some of his top supporters as part of a week-long effort to solidify his base in the face of calls from some Democrats for him to drop out of the 2024 race.Biden will visit the AFL-CIO’s Executive Council meeting in Washington, D.C., to meet with leaders in attendance and discuss the stakes of November’s election, his campaign said. Biden will deliver brief remarks and answer questions from union leader
  
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• Fox host presses Kirby on Biden abilities: ‘There’s real concern’

  10-07-2024 03:39 via thehill.com
  
  Fox News anchor Brett Baier pressed White House national security communications adviser John Kirby over President Biden’s abilities, noting that there is “real concern” among people in the country and internationally that he can do the job.Kirby joined Baier on Tuesday evening after the president spoke at the NATO summit in Washington, D.C.As questions of Biden’s ability to lead the country persist into its second week, Kirby sought to tame the panic by emphasizing that
  
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• Biden presents NATO chief with Presidential Medal of Freedom

  10-07-2024 01:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday opened the 75th anniversary summit of NATO by acknowledging the decade-long leadership of the outgoing secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of the U.S. In a moment that appeared to take the secretary general by surprise, Biden invited Stoltenberg up on stage of the Mellon Auditorium during his remarks at the ceremony kicking off the three-day summit, which is celebrating the all
  
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• Tide beginning to turn in Biden’s favor — for now

  10-07-2024 00:53 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats on Capitol Hill are coalescing — comfortably or not — behind the idea of keeping President Biden as their 2024 nominee despite a disastrous debate performance last month that prompted calls for him to bow out. At a private meeting of the House Democratic Caucus on Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of lawmakers voiced their support for the president, with some hailing his leadership chops and others simply acknowledging the reality that primary voters have already
  
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• US, allies to send Ukraine five strategic air defense systems

  10-07-2024 00:38 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden announced that NATO allies will be providing Ukraine with a significant air defense package, in remarks kicking off the 75th anniversary celebrations of the alliance and a three-day summit focused on shoring up support for the war-torn country.“Today, I’m announcing a historic donation of air defense equipment for Ukraine,” Biden said in remarks at the summit being held in Washington, D.C.He said the U.S., along with Germany, Netherlands, Romania, and Italy &ldq
  
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