Joe Biden News
The Daily Signal reports on Joe Biden’s current political role, public statements, and party influence, with updates on investigations, policy advocacy, and his standing among Democrats.
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Arms Control Policy Under Biden Not Off to a Good New START
News that President Joe Biden intends to seek a five-year extension of the New START agreement with Russia is disappointing, to say the least. New START restricts the number of delivery systems and warheads that the United States and Russia can deploy. Signed in 2011, it’s set to expire on Feb. 5 unless the leaders…Patty-Jane Geller -
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Here’s What We Can Expect From a Biden Administration
Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. Eager to implement his agenda, Biden signed a number of executive orders after he was sworn into office, beginning the process of undoing some of former President Donald Trump’s legacy. Jessica Anderson, director of Heritage Action for America, joins the “Problematic Women” podcast…Virginia Allen -
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Will Biden Place Political Correctness Ahead of Military Readiness on Transgender Policy?
At his Tuesday confirmation hearing, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be secretary of defense, retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, asked about service by transgendered people in the military, replied that if “you are fit, and you’re qualified to serve, and you can maintain the standards, you should be allowed to serve.” That is indeed the correct…Thomas Spoehr -
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Biden’s Disbanding of 1776 Commission Shows Left’s War on US History
All Americans should wish President Joe Biden well. To do otherwise would be churlish and self-defeating. It beggars belief, though, that one of his first intended acts was for his White House to take down the report issued Monday by the 1776 Commission, and on his first day as president, to disband the commission. Is…Mike Gonzalez -
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Biden Calls for End to ‘Uncivil War’ in Unity-Themed Inaugural Address
President Joe Biden led a silent prayer and read Scripture as he called for unity in an inaugural address that not only followed disputed election results, but was delivered where a violent riot rocked the Capitol just two weeks earlier. “The forces that divide us are deep and they are real, but I also know…Fred Lucas -
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11 Big Moves Biden Could Make on His First Day as President
Joe Biden will have a busy day after taking the oath of office as president at noon Wednesday, as the Biden campaign promised and incoming chief of staff Ron Klain recently affirmed. Klain issued what has become a widely reported Jan. 16 memo on Biden’s first 10 days as president, laying out a plan to…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Administration Shouldn’t Prematurely Lift Cuba’s State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation
Earlier this week, the Trump administration designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. Despite critics claiming this was a politically motivated policy, the facts are quite clear. For the last two years, the Cuban regime has refused to extradite leaders of the National Liberation Army, known internationally as the ELN, back to Colombia. In…Ana Quintana -
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Biden Says His ‘Priority’ Will Be Minority- and Women-Owned Small Businesses
President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will make minority- and women-owned small businesses its “priority,” his transition team tweeted Sunday. “Our focus will be on small businesses on Main Street that aren’t wealthy and well connected, that are facing real economic hardships through no fault of their own,” Biden said during the video. “Our priority will be…Mary Rose Corkery -
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Biden Is No Centrist
One of many things that will distinguish a President Joe Biden from his predecessor is that the incoming president is likely to speak less in public, mostly because of how he garbles his thoughts and words. The most recent example was when he called Peter Doocy of Fox News a “one-horse pony.” Translators are still…Cal Thomas -
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Black Lives Matter Protesters Would Have Been Treated ‘Very Differently’ Than Capitol Rioters, Biden Says
President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday said Black Lives Matter activists would “have been treated very, very differently” if they had stormed the Capitol, instead of President Donald Trump supporters. “No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn’t — they wouldn’t have been treated…Jake Dima -
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Amazon Hires Lobbying Firm Connected to Top Biden Adviser
Amazon, the trillion-dollar tech company, has hired lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti, whose brother will be the top White House counselor to Joe Biden. Jeff Ricchetti’s firm, which he founded in 2001 with his brother Steve Ricchetti, the incoming Biden adviser, registered as a lobbyist for Amazon on Nov. 13. According to disclosure forms filed with Congress, Jeff Ricchetti…Chuck Ross -
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Biden Should Beware of Nemesis
Former Vice President Joe Biden will be our next president. But he will face Nemesis in a way that few other presidents have ever encountered the cruel Greek god. Biden’s hubris and that of the media/Democratic Party fusion almost guarantee such divine retribution. Once the last of the other Democratic primary candidates dropped out and…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Media Saves Biden, Just as It Saved Obama
Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, is undergoing a tax investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware concerning Hunter Biden’s lucrative work with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company on whose board Hunter Biden sat, despite a lack of energy experience and the ability to speak Russian or Ukrainian. The Media Research Center…Larry Elder -
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McConnell Calls Biden ‘President-Elect,’ Hails Harris as First Female Veep
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday congratulated “President-elect Joe Biden” in a Senate floor speech, asserting, “the Electoral College has spoken.” McConnell, R-Ky., delivered his remarks one day after the Electoral College voted 306 to 232 to declare Biden the official winner of the presidential election. However, President Donald Trump hasn’t conceded the race,…Fred Lucas -
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Biden’s ‘Return to Normalcy’ Is Going to Be Terrible
After spending two years avoiding serious questions about his policy preferences, his team, and his prospective presidency, we now know what Joe Biden intends to do should the Electoral College, as expected, votes for him in December: He’ll reopen the swamp for business. The media spent four long years suggesting that President Donald Trump was…Ben Shapiro -
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John Kerry Would Return as Climate Czar in Biden Administration
John Kerry, a former secretary of state in the Obama administration and the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, will return to the federal government to oversee climate policy, former Vice President Joe Biden announced Monday. Biden, who several major news outlets have projected as president-elect, announced his national security team on Monday, including his would-be nominees…Fred Lucas -
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5 ‘Terrifying’ Policies to Brace for Under Biden
Donald Trump has been a unique president for a lot of reasons, but one in particular: he keeps his promises. Anyone who’s seen former Vice President Joe Biden’s priorities has to be praying he doesn’t become president. They make Hillary Clinton, who ran on the most extreme platform of any candidate in history, look like…Tony Perkins -
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Press’ Premature Biden Celebration Fuels American Mistrust
When residents in Washington, D.C., heard the media call the election for Joe Biden, they erupted in celebration—whooping and hollering, banging pots together on their front steps, honking car horns, and generally behaving as if Munchkin Land had been freed from the wicked witch. The media, too, gleefully danced upon President Donald Trump’s alleged political…Joshua Arnold -
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Biden, Comey, Brennan Submitted Flynn ‘Unmasking’ Requests
Former Vice President Joe Biden and the directors of the three main U.S. intelligence agencies submitted so-called unmasking requests for information about Michael Flynn contained in highly classified intelligence reports, according to documents released Wednesday. The documents show that an unmasking request was made in Biden’s name on Jan. 12, 2017. Similar requests were made under the…Chuck Ross -
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In ‘White Man’s Culture’ Remarks, Biden Shows How Little He Knows About History
Last week, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Biden Courage Awards ceremony in preparation for his presidential campaign launch. There, in an attempt to forestall claims that as a white man, he simply isn’t intersectional enough to compete in the Democratic primaries, he critiqued a central pillar of Western civilization as inherently racist….Ben Shapiro