National News – Gloomberg News

Primary Season Ends With Pro-Trump Nominees Giving Hope to Democrats | Politics

14Sep

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Primary Season Ends With Pro-Trump Nominees Giving Hope to Democrats | Politics

It was a tight race that wasn't called until late Wednesday morning, and when the final results were in, Republican Don Bolduc was joyously celebrating his win in the New Hampshire primary for a Senate seat.Democrats were celebrating his win as well. With control of the Senate at risk of flipping to the Republicans, Democrats were nervously eying the seat of sitting Sen. Maggie Hassan, whom Bolduc will face in November. Hassan eked out a victory in 2016 by a 1,017 vote margin and this year – a midterm election where the party in power typically loses seats – was shaping up as an even tougher battle.But the primary win by Bolduc, a 2020 election-denier whom New Hampshire's GOP governor, Chris Sununu, called "kind of a conspiracy-theorist type candidate" when refusing to endorse Bolduc in th...

Parliamentarian Signs Off on Massive Democratic Spending Plan | Politics

6Aug

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Parliamentarian Signs Off on Massive Democratic Spending Plan | Politics

The Senate parliamentarian has left Democrats’ massive climate, health care and tax legislation largely intact, clearing the way for the spending bill to be taken up by lawmakers Saturday after the support of the final Democratic holdouts was secured.“This is a major victory for the American people,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said of the parliamentarian’s decision to allow a portion of the legislation – which allows Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices – to proceed.The parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, has been weighing the components of the final bill to see if it is in compliance with the procedural maneuver called reconciliation that allows passage of certain budget-related legislation on a simple majority rather than the 60 votes ordinarily require...

Jan. 6 Committee Details ‘Unhinged’ Meeting at the White House and the Trump Tweet That ‘Summoned an Angry Mob’ (220712news.jan6) (3 PV) | Politics

12Jul

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Jan. 6 Committee Details ‘Unhinged’ Meeting at the White House and the Trump Tweet That ‘Summoned an Angry Mob’ (220712news.jan6) (3 PV) | Politics

The congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol painted a picture Tuesday of how – as door after door closed on President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election and even his White House staff understood that he had lost – Trump embraced ever more fantastical conspiracy theories peddled by fringe actors and ultimately took matters into his own hands with a single tweet that would “unleash a political firestorm.”“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Trump wrote. “Be there, will be wild!”On the heels of stunning testimony last week, the select committee delivered an intimate look into the days leading to the violent attack on the Capitol, as the panel appeared to be positioning itself – with just one hearing likely remaining – to link Trump’s moves in those ...

Biden Strategizes With Democratic Governors to Protect Abortion Rights | Politics

1Jul

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Biden Strategizes With Democratic Governors to Protect Abortion Rights | Politics

Hamstrung by narrow Democratic majorities in Congress, President Joe Biden Friday huddled virtually with Democratic governors to find ways to provide abortion access even as states move to ban or severely restrict the procedure."We're going to do everything in our power" to help girls and women get abortions no matter where they live, Biden told nine governors on a videoconference to plot strategy. He said he had just spoken with Attorney General Merrick Garland, and the two were determined to make sure two workarounds – getting medication abortion from an out-of-state provider or traveling across a state line to get an abortion, would be protected."This is not over," Biden said, a week after the Supreme Court handed down a decision reversing the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling guaranteeing a woma...

Biden: Keep Politics Out of Coronavirus Vaccines for Children | Health News

21Jun

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Biden: Keep Politics Out of Coronavirus Vaccines for Children | Health News

President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Americans to keep politics away from getting children under 5 coronavirus shots after his administration and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a falling out over the White House vaccine campaign.“Let's be clear: Elected officials shouldn't get in the way and make it more difficult for parents who want their children to be vaccinated and want to protect them and those around them,” Biden said from the White House after touring a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Washington, D.C. “This is no time for politics. It's about parents being able to do everything they can to keep their children safe.”Biden’s comments come as shots in arms for children under 5 start rolling out across the country. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the shots on Friday, and the ...

Biden Struggles to Defend His Presidency Amid Setbacks | Politics

1Jun

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Biden Struggles to Defend His Presidency Amid Setbacks | Politics

President Joe Biden has a lot of problems, and he's spent the week trying to convince Americans he's doing something about them. From baby formula shortages to the war in Ukraine to high inflation, the president wants voters to know he has a plan to ease their pain.But those plans, experts say, may be just that – plans and proposals, many of which need unlikely approval by an uncooperative Congress or are subject to the whims of hostile foreign leaders, unpredictable markets or other forces beyond any president's control.And Biden, facing an unhappy public that emerged from a pandemic only to be hit with big grocery and gas bills, a war and two traumatizing mass shootings, is having a hard time making his case that he is taking whatever action the Constitution allows him to do.Political Ca...

Biden Urges Senate to Approve NATO Membership for Finland and Sweden | Politics

19May

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Biden Urges Senate to Approve NATO Membership for Finland and Sweden | Politics

It was exactly the scene Russian president Vladimir Putin dreaded: The American president, standing in the Rose Garden with the leaders of Sweden and Finland, ready to expand NATO in response to Putin's attack on Ukraine."New members joining NATO is not a threat to any nation,” Biden said, offering America's "strong support" of Finland and Sweden's bid to join the defensive security alliance.“In the face of aggression, NATO has not grown weaker or more divided. It has grown stronger, more united," said Biden, flanked by Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson."In recent years, doubts began to arise: Was NATO still relevant? Was it still effective? Is it still needed in the 21st-century world?” Biden said. "Today there is no question NATO is relevant,...

GOP Leaders Criticized for Enabling ‘White Supremacy’ After Buffalo Shooting | Politics

16May

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

GOP Leaders Criticized for Enabling ‘White Supremacy’ After Buffalo Shooting | Politics

Republican House leaders are under criticism in the aftermath of a Buffalo shooting over the weekend that officials called a racist attack by a gunman who killed 10 people and wounded three after reportedly writing and sharing a document online promoting far-right conspiracy theories.Rep. Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican, did not mince words on Monday, accusing GOP leadership of enabling “white nationalism, white supremacy and anti-semitism,” while urging GOP leaders to “renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.”“The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism,” Cheney wrote in a tweet on Monday. “History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse.”Cartoons on the Republican PartyThe comment comes after the suspect in...

Biden Wants Ukraine Aid Passed Immediately, Separate From COVID-19 Funding | Politics

9May

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Biden Wants Ukraine Aid Passed Immediately, Separate From COVID-19 Funding | Politics

President Joe Biden is shifting strategy with additional aid for Ukraine and more COVID-19 funding languishing for weeks: Pass them separately and prioritize emergency funds to counter the Russian invasion in order to avoid further delays.The move is almost certain to ensure that tens of billions of dollars in new military, economic and humanitarian aid for Ukraine will pass in the near future. Like the last round of aid approved in March, there’s overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress for additional help for Ukraine as it enters the third month of Russia’s invasion. Biden urged swift passage, warning that he’s already “nearly exhausted” the previous funding of nearly $14 billion.Late last month, Biden requested another $33 billion, and after conversations with leadership, he said in ...

Could Overturning Roe v. Wade Backfire for Republicans? | Politics

5May

By Gloomberg NewsNo Comments

Politics

Could Overturning Roe v. Wade Backfire for Republicans? | Politics

Imperiled Democrats have a message for Republicans who have been campaigning for decades on the promise to ban abortion: be careful what you wish for.The leak of the draft Supreme Court decision vacating the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion has provided besieged Democratic candidates with a universal theme as they head into a daunting midterm election season. From Pennsylvania to Nevada, and Ohio to Florida, Democratic candidates for Senate slammed the decision and castigated GOP opponents who are running on antiabortion platforms.Democratic gubernatorial and state legislative candidates also seized on the issue, since an undoing of Roe would make states the arbiters of whether or not a woman can terminate a pregnancy.Republicans, for the most part, sought to soften their rh...