Jeff Mordock

Biden complains that Trump intimidates GOP a year after leaving office

President Biden on Wednesday lamented former President Donald Trump's lasting grip on the Republican Party, saying it is preventing the GOP from working with him on his agenda.

January 19, 2022

Biden to break up $1.8 trillion economic bill, try to pass it in pieces

President Biden on Wednesday officially threw in the towel on his roughly $1.8 trillion social welfare and climate bill, saying he would instead break up the legislation and try to pass "big chunks."

January 19, 2022

Biden warns Moscow will be hit with the toughest sanctions yet if Russia invades Ukraine

President Biden on Wednesday warned Russia will "pay a stiff price" if it invades Ukraine.

January 19, 2022

Biden says he exceeded expectations in first year, vows to stay the course

President Biden marked his first year in office Wednesday by saying his administration still needs to get inflation and COVID-19 under control, but boasted that he made "enormous progress."

January 19, 2022

Biden insists the U.S. will turn the corner on pandemic without lockdowns, school closures

President Biden said Wednesday that he dropped the ball on COVID-19 testing around Christmas but insisted he is catching up with virus-fighting programs and putting the U.S. in the position to beat back the pandemic without resorting to lockdowns.

January 19, 2022

Biden meets with bipartisan group of senators to discuss Ukraine

President Biden on Wednesday met virtually with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss Russia's military buildup along the Ukraine border, the White House said.

January 19, 2022

Biden to nominate Democrat fundraiser for U.K. ambassador post

President Biden on Wednesday announced he will nominate Jane Hartley, a major Democrat fundraiser, as ambassador to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

January 19, 2022

Biden to hold first press conference as administration looks for reset

President Biden on Wednesday will hold his first formal press conference in nearly a year after a difficult end to 2021 and an especially bad two weeks ringing in 2022.

January 19, 2022

Biden warns of ‘dear price’ for Russia as Blinken huddles with Ukraine

President Biden told a White House press conference Wednesday that Russia would pay a "dear price" if it took military action against neighboring Ukraine, hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken huddled with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to kick off a hastily organized European mission to head off a new war in Europe.

January 19, 2022

VP Harris to travel to Honduras as migrant caravans from that country headed for U.S.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Honduras next week to attend the inauguration of the country's new president, the White House announced Tuesday.

January 18, 2022

Biden’s fiery, angry speeches set tone for 2022 midterms

President Biden's first two speeches of 2022 set the tone for the midterm election year: angry and combative.

January 18, 2022

Psaki invokes Biden’s dead wife, child while dodging question about Delaware visitor logs

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday invoked President Biden's dead wife and child in an unusual move to sidestep questions about why the administration won't release visitor logs from the president's Delaware residences.

January 18, 2022

Biden boasts $27 billion in bridge repair spending

President Biden on Friday announced that his administration will distribute $27 billion to repair or replace 15,000 bridges across the country.

January 14, 2022

Biden’s policies hit his home state in the pocketbook, skewer Delaware’s biggest industries

President Biden may be Delaware's favorite son, but he has aggressively pushed policies that stick it to the state's largest industries that together generate roughly $10 billion in annual revenue.

January 14, 2022

Biden to hold rare press conference next week

President Biden will hold a rare, formal press conference next week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday.

January 14, 2022

Biden keeps his promise to add diversity to Fed, nominates women, minorities to central bank

President Biden on Friday nominated a Black man and two women, one of whom is Black, for key roles at the Federal Reserve, fulfilling a campaign pledge to increase diversity at the central bank.

January 14, 2022

Michael Avenatti files complaint against Bureau of Prisons

Disgraced celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti is seeking $94 million from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, alleging that he was brutally mistreated while in federal custody as punishment for criticizing former President Donald Trump and former Attorney General William P. Barr.

January 14, 2022

Biden administration slaps sanctions on North Korea for ballistic missile test

The Biden administration slapped sanctions on five North Korean officials in response to the totalitarian regime's latest ballistic missile test.

January 13, 2022

Biden goes nuclear on the filibuster and Republicans, but his ploy runs into Democratic resistance

President Biden in a major speech Tuesday called for blowing up the Senate filibuster rules to fight against what he says is a Republican assault on American democracy, but Sen. Joe Manchin III is again poised to derail the president's plans.

January 11, 2022

Biden delivers battle cry for ripping up Senate filibuster rules, rewriting election laws

President Biden on Tuesday forcefully demanded Senate Democrats blow up the chamber's filibuster rules to advance a package of partisan voting laws, throwing himself into the cause after the rest of his economic agenda collapsed.

January 11, 2022