Articles by Dave Boyer
President Biden is telling whoppers faster than inflation is rising. Whether he's talking about the state of the economy or his exploits in college, the purported "facts" presented by the president don't hold up to the most basic check.
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June 17, 2022
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The White House said Wednesday that U.S. oil companies are shirking their "patriotic duty" to refine more gasoline to bring down record-high prices amid Russia's war in Ukraine.
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June 15, 2022
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President Biden announced seven judicial nominations on Wednesday, including the first Hispanic judge for the Court of Appeals in Washington, the first Black woman for the federal appeals court that covers the Deep South, and a South Asian American woman who fought a GOP challenge of the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona.
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June 15, 2022
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Former President Donald Trump says Democrats' only goal in holding hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol is to prevent him from seeking a second term in 2024.
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June 14, 2022
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President Biden held an awkward meeting Thursday with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump who has raised doubts about Mr. Biden's election victory in 2020.
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June 9, 2022
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President Biden said the first congressional hearing Thursday night on the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol will show that the rioters violated the Constitution.
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June 9, 2022
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President Biden told business leaders of the Western Hemisphere Thursday that conservative "trickle-down" economic policies are a failure, as he called for more spending by governments and businesses despite high inflation and other headwinds.
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June 9, 2022
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House Democrats on Wednesday approved quietly -- budget hawks said sneakily -- a resolution setting a top level of federal discretionary spending for fiscal 2023 at $1.6 trillion, which would be a 9% increase over current spending at a time of 40-year-high inflation.
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June 8, 2022
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With gas prices having more than doubled under President Biden, congressional Republicans increasingly are accusing the president of scheming for exactly that to happen, the better to pursue his clean-energy climate agenda.
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June 8, 2022
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress Wednesday that the IRS is doing an "awful" job responding to taxpayers but President Biden's request for $80 billion more for the agency will increase its efficiency.
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June 8, 2022
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that she expects inflation to remain "high" this year, even telling lawmakers that the administration's two-month-old forecast for price increases needs to be revised.
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June 7, 2022
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Republican lawmakers grilled Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Tuesday over high inflation and soaring gas prices, saying the Biden administration's big spending and clean energy agenda has left Americans worse off.
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June 7, 2022
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House Democrats' plan for a prime-time Jan. 6 committee hearing Thursday to roll out their evidence of a conspiracy is running into a dwindling number of Americans who blame former President Donald Trump for the riot at the U.S. Capitol seeking to disrupt the 2020 election vote count.
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June 6, 2022
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President Biden on Friday hailed the latest jobs report as proof that the U.S. economy is strong, even as he conceded that record high inflation and gas prices are still hurting many families' budgets.
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June 3, 2022
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Republicans are deploying a legion of recruits nationwide to serve as poll workers this year, a new strategy that party officials say will finally give it a robust Election Day presence in Democratic bastions such as Detroit.
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June 2, 2022
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Even the White House said it wasn't sure whether President Biden lied last week when he told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy that he turned down an appointment to Annapolis in 1965.
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May 31, 2022
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President Biden tried to assure Americans Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the central bank will get control of record inflation, despite the price of gas hitting another high and three-quarters of voters saying the nation is headed in the wrong direction.
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May 31, 2022
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Vice President Kamala Harris will attend a memorial service on Saturday for one of the victims of the May 14 mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
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May 27, 2022
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President Biden told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday that they will serve a key role in defending democracy from autocracies such as Russia and China in the next decade.
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May 27, 2022
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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel on Sunday to the scene of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the White House said.
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May 26, 2022
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