President-elect Joe Biden’s spokeswoman on Sunday reaffirmed plans to hold the inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, saying it will highlight the “resilience of American democracy” amid safety concerns and a heightened security posture following last week’s violent breach of the complex.
Amid reports that U.S. defense officials are worried about an insider attack or other threat from some of the 25,000 National Guard troops being deployed to the nation’s capital to help secure Joe Biden’s inauguration, the FBI is reportedly vetting soldiers for sympathies toward political extremists — on the right, of course.
Downtown Washington, D.C. has been turned into a veritable fortress in the wake of the storming of the Capitol building and ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration this week, as you can read about more in this War Zone piece from yesterday. Tens of thousands of U.S. military personnel, as well as law enforcement officers, are in place and on high alert. We have now gotten a demonstration of the take-absolutely-no-chances security posture in place in the city after a nearby fire triggered a brief lockdown at the Capitol, complete with loudspeakers blaring a message directing people to shelter in place or otherwise seek cover due to an “external security threat.”
Joe Biden, who spent months hunkered down in his basement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is rested and raring to go.
The president-elect takes office at noon on Wednesday, and he’s already got a slew of actions he plans to take on the first days, and in the days that follow.
Ron Klain, who will serve as Biden’s White House chief of staff, wrote in a memo released Saturday that Biden will focus on “the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis.”
Hey, remember when Trump’s Executive Orders were labelled ‘bypassing democracy’?
The National Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will have key roles in President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to increase the numbers of Americans being vaccinated against the coronavirus.
According to new report from the Los Angeles Times, President-elect Joe Biden plans to offer a pathway to citizenship to 11 million illegal immigrants in his early days of his Presidency.
The LA Times cited un-named immigrant rights activists in communication with the Biden-Harris transition team.
Per the report “the bill also would provide a shorter pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protected status and beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals who were brought to the U.S. as children, and probably also for certain front-line essential workers, vast numbers of whom are immigrants.”
The Red Cross estimates that up to 4,000 people could join the caravan, as Honduras reels from violence and an economy shattered by hurricanes and coronavirus lockdowns.
President-elect Joe Biden just unveiled his proposal for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Democrats insist it is targeted to respond to the crisis and only full of “commonsense” measures and much-needed emergency spending.
Yet, even a cursory glance at the specifics of the package reveals that it’s a Trojan horse for a sweeping liberal agenda that Biden could never otherwise get passed.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released a new memo warning that bombs pose a “substantial” threat in upcoming protests expected to take place across all 50 state capitals, ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Yeah I’m thinking Reichstag Fire Phase 2.
Biden introduced the minimum wage provision in a speech laying out his priorities for a tax-payer funded stimulus package to tackle the damage wreaked on the economy by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the coronavirus.
According to a July 2019 estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 would lead to the loss of 1.3 million jobs while boosting the wages of 17 million workers.
When Joe Biden assumes office next week one of the things he’s promised on day one is to mandate 100 days of mask wearing. Because the authoritarian nature of of democrats knows no bounds, it now appears as if Biden will actually make us wear two masks at the same time because of science and stuff. No, seriously. Biden is now wearing two masks despite the fact that he’s already received the COVID-19 vaccination.
Joe Biden twists ankle while playing with his dog
President-elect Joe Biden slipped and twisted his ankle while playing with his dog Major, his office said Sunday.
The 78-year-old Democrat will be examined by an orthopedist on Sunday “out of an abundance of caution” following Saturday’s incident, the brief statement said.
Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, adopted Major from the Delaware Humane Association in 2018.
