President Biden’s address to Congress on Tuesday will be overshadowed by his dreary public approval numbers and new concerns about his leadership after he let a Chinese spy balloon freely traverse the U.S. and gather data from the nation’s most sensitive military bases. The Washington Times stories: White House
Read More...A bill before the House would create a new cadre of people to help the government in case of a serious cyber attack. The National Digital Reserve Corps would be managed by the General Services Administration. To learn more about the Corps, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales. Interview transcript: Tony Gonzales First off, I am a retired Navy Master Chief. I spent 20 years and in the Navy as a naval cryptologist, with a top secret SCI clearance. I spent five years in…
Read More...Does anyone want to be president? Typically, by the time a president delivers the State of the Union address at the start of his third year in office, as Joe Biden will on Tuesday, at least half a dozen rivals are already gunning for his job. When Donald Trump began his annual speech to Congress in 2019, four of the Democrats staring back at him inside the House chamber had already declared their presidential candidacies. Not so this year. The only Republican (or Democrat, for that matter) officially trying to…
Read More...The official end of the COVID-19 emergency is near. That’s good news. It’s now up to the states to finish the job. The House of Representatives voted Feb. 1 on a joint resolution ending the national COVID-19 emergency and a bill to terminate Health and Human Services’ public health emergency declaration. At the same time, the Biden administration has also announced plans to end both of those emergencies in May. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers took emergency steps to help mitigate its effects. Then-President Donald Trump in…
Read More...WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday morning, MoveOn, Make the Road Action, the Working Families Party, NY-3 constituents, and local activists gathered at Representative George Santos’s district office to deliver a MoveOn petition with over 100,000 signatures demanding he resign from office or be removed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Today’s event comes on the heels of recent public polling from Siena College that shows that nearly 4 in 5 residents in Santos’s district support his removal from office. In an interview with Long Island Business News, MoveOn Executive Director Rahna…
Read More...A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump’s presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday. The Washington Times stories: White House
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