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Robbing Pavel to Pay Pedro: The Biden White House’s New Refugee Plan
The Biden administration recently sent Congress a proposal to admit a total of 125,000 refugees in the fiscal year that begins next month. If recent years are any guide, though, President Joe Biden won’t get anywhere near that target. In fiscal year 2021, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program let in only 11,411 refugees out of… -
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A Media Coach Assesses White House Press Secretary’s Briefing Room Blunders
Being the White House press secretary is a notoriously hard job. The press secretary must be up to date on every policy issue engaging the president and his team. The position requires the person who holds it to be articulate, confident, honest, and transparent, while also keeping sensitive information with care. Unfortunately, current White House… -
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Texas Democrat Gives Up on White House Talks to Solve Border Crisis
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, has given up on having conversations with the White House about the border because top officials in the Biden administration are only interested in listening to “immigration activists,” he said in an exclusive interview. “I haven’t followed up with the White House … after months and months and months of talking… -
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White House ‘Disinformation’ Campaign Against Climate Policy Critics Sparks Litigation
Climate activists are working in coordination with the Biden White House and Democrat-dominated congressional committees to silence political opponents under the guise of “disinformation,” legal and energy policy analysts say. Under President Joe Biden, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has kept a tight lid on how the administration advances its climate… -
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4 Big Takeaways as White House Aide Testifies on Trump and Capitol Riot
In perhaps the most significant public hearing held so far by the House’s Jan. 6 committee, a former White House aide testified Tuesday that President Donald Trump was aware that protesters at the Capitol had weapons but briefly insisted on going there himself. The House select committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., also seemed… -
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Biden’s Executive Order on Policing Misses Mark
President Joe Biden signed an executive order, “Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety,” on Wednesday. The title may sound good, but unfortunately, for the most part, it does none of those things. Instead, it’s a political statement designed to satisfy the left-wing base of his party…. -
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Biden White House Refuses to Condemn ‘Disgusting’ Efforts to Intimidate Supreme Court Justices
White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to say if President Joe Biden condemned efforts to intimidate Supreme Court justices by posting their addresses online and protesting outside their homes. A left-wing group called Ruth Sent Us published the home addresses of the court’s six conservative justices online, called them “extremist,” and on Tuesday announced a May 11 protest outside their… -
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White House Refuses to Weigh In on Biological Men Competing in Women’s Sports
The White House dodged a question on transgender participation in college sports during Monday’s press briefing. Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if the Biden administration thought it was fair that biological males are now competing against women in college sports. The White House is “not the governing body… -
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What’s Driving Up Gas Prices—and Why the White House Won’t Help
When a news anchor confronted Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm about high gasoline prices and asked about the Biden administration’s plan to increase oil production in America, she burst into laughter. “That is hilarious,” she said. It was early November 2021, and gas prices were averaging $3.39 nationally. The reporter wasn’t laughing. And now, with the… -
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Despite What the White House Says, Obamacare Is Deeply Troubled
Open enrollment on Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges is in full swing. Consumers in most states, including the 33 that use the federally operated HealthCare.gov, have until Jan. 15 to sign up for coverage for 2022. The Biden administration says things have never been better, and that premiums are declining, more insurers are participating in the… -
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White House Is Bypassing Usual Fiscal Review Process to Push Spending Bill Through. This Is Irresponsible.
The House of Representatives is charging ahead to pass a reckless tax and spending budget bill without even knowing how much it will cost the taxpayers and the American economy. Some members of Congress have demanded official cost estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation before considering this latest attempt… -
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State Chapters of National School Boards Group Slam Letter to White House Depicting Parents as Domestic Terrorists
State members of the National School Boards Association slammed the organization following its letter addressed to President Joe Biden’s administration that compared parental concern at school board meetings to actions of “domestic terrorists,” according to emails obtained by Parents Defending Education through a public records request. Emails between Delaware, Florida, and Ohio school board officials… -
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Nation in ‘Energy Crisis,’ White House Adviser Says
A top White House official said there was an “energy crisis” in the U.S. and urged foreign fossil-fuel producers to ramp up production to quell it. “We see this as an energy crisis because this is not just natural gas prices that have been elevated, but crude oil is at very high levels at the… -
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Biden White House Will Pay for Playing Inflation Games
White House chief of staff Ron Klain recently endorsed the idea that inflation and supply-chain struggles Americans are facing are “high-class problems.” I’m in no position to comment on whether the inflation spike we’re experiencing is “transitory” or not—though, metaphysically speaking, isn’t everything? Maybe it will be a short-term problem sparked by supply shocks and… -
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Watchdog Seeks Answers on White House Involvement, Garland Conflict in Memo Targeting Parents as Terrorists
A watchdog group alleging the Justice Department’s controversial targeting of parents for speaking up on local school matters was a “White House priority” now seeks more information about Attorney General Merrick Garland and his son-in-law’s company to shed light on a potential conflict of interest. Garland, picked by President Joe Biden to lead the Justice… -
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White House Fakery Defended by ‘Fact-Checkers’
When is a fake setting not a fake setting? When President Joe Biden sits in front of it. The “independent fact-checkers,” a phrase that in itself strains credulity, leaped to defend Biden after he received a COVID-19 booster shot in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Sept. 27. For political rookies, the EEOB is not… -
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Biden White House Tells Trump Appointees to Resign or Be Fired as Military Academy Advisers
The Biden administration told 11 former Trump officials to resign from their appointed positions on military service academy advisory boards or face dismissal, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Wednesday. The officials include former Senior Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster, CNN reported…. -
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Ukraine’s Leader Visits White House 2 Years After Trump Asks Him for Probe of Biden
President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a central figure in the first impeachment of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. Biden and Zelenskyy focused on security against Russian aggression, anti-corruption initiatives, and energy and climate goals, according to the White House. “We have to focus very much now on the security issues, which… -
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What You Need to Know About Biden’s Ill-Conceived Executive Order on Electric Vehicles
President Joe Biden issued an executive order Aug. 5 calling for half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be zero-emission vehicles by 2030. A president can’t exactly force Americans to buy an electric vehicle, and Biden largely meant his executive order as a messaging tool to fuel enthusiasm for his climate agenda…. -
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How Biden White House Got Border Crisis Wrong as ‘Seasonal Migration’
Border officials reported an increase in the number of encounters with migrants at the southern border in June, out of line with the Biden administration’s attribution to seasonal migration and historical trends showing a decrease in encounters after May. The number of encounters at the southern border was “somewhat overstated” due to pandemic-related expulsions allowing…