Jeff Mordock

Psaki mum on McConnell’s proposals to avert U.S. default

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday sidestepped questions about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's proposal to end Congress' stalemate over raising the debt limit.

October 6, 2021

Biden’s approval rating drops to 38% in Quinnipiac poll

President Biden's approval has slipped to 38%, its lowest level since he's taken office, with Americans giving him poor marks for his handling of several important issues, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

October 6, 2021

Biden, banking leaders escalate pressure on Republicans to raise debt limit

President Biden on Wednesday tried to ramp up pressure on Republicans to raise the debt ceiling, hosting banking and financial industry leaders who warned that even a delay in increasing the government's borrowing limit could cause economic chaos.

October 6, 2021

Biden says he has confidence in Federal Reserve chairman amid Elizabeth Warren criticism

President Biden said Tuesday he backs Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell amid harsh criticism from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat.

October 5, 2021

Biden says spending plan is necessary to compete with China

President Biden told a union audience in Michigan on Tuesday that anyone who opposes his massive, stalled economic spending packages on infrastructure and social welfare is "complicit in America's decline."

October 5, 2021

‘Two people’: Democrats facing reality of cutting Biden’s social welfare bill

Democrats are being thwarted by strong party divisions over how to move forward on key parts of President Biden's economic agenda as lawmakers face the harsh reality that they must cut the president's $3.5 trillion social welfare bill to secure its passage.

October 4, 2021

Biden meeting with balky House progressives on ‘reconciliation’ bill

President Biden was meeting virtually with progressive House Democrats on Monday afternoon to negotiate a lower price tag on his $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

October 4, 2021

‘Part of the process’: Biden plays down bathroom harassment, videotaping of female senator

President Biden downplayed the leftist activists who followed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema into a bathroom and videotaped her, calling such actions part of politics.

October 4, 2021

‘Russian roulette’: Biden rips Republicans for filibuster threats on debt limit increase

President Biden on Monday urged Congress to raise the debt ceiling, blaming Republicans for the impasse and warning of a potential economic calamity if the U.S. defaults on its financial obligations for the first time in history.

October 4, 2021

Biden to take faltering economic agenda to Michigan voters in bid to pressure deadlocked Congress

President Biden will travel to Michigan on Tuesday to pitch his $4.5 economic agenda, appealing directly to voters in the swing state to pressure Democrats in Congress deadlocked over two spending bills.

October 3, 2021

Dr. Fauci: ‘Precious few’ religions oppose vaccines

Dr. Anthony Fauci said it is exceedingly rare for a major religion to oppose vaccines.

October 3, 2021

As COVID-19 death toll tops 700,000, Biden urges Americans not to become ‘numb’

President Biden on Saturday urged Americans not to become numb to the sorrow wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, as the U.S. death toll from the deadly virus eclipsed 700,000.

October 2, 2021

Biden goes on offense as economic agenda teeters

President Biden headed to Capitol Hill on Friday in a last-ditch mission to salvage his teetering economic agenda amid criticism from fellow Democrats that he waited too long to become involved in the negotiating process.

October 1, 2021

Biden asks House Dems to lower price tag of social welfare bill, pass with infrastructure measure

President Biden urged progressive House Democrats Friday to scale back his proposed $3.5 trillion social-welfare package by one-third, a move that would align more closely with the demands of two moderate Democratic senators who are resisting the higher price tag.

October 1, 2021

Special counsel subpoenas Clinton-linked law firm in probe of FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation

Special counsel John Durham has issued a fresh set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, a signal of an expanding scope of his probe into wrongdoing in the FBI's Russian collusion investigation.

October 1, 2021

White House says ‘progress’ made on economic agenda despite vote delay

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said late Thursday that "a great deal of progress" had been made in Congress on President Biden's multi-trillion-dollar economic agenda, despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delaying a vote on the president's infrastructure bill.

September 30, 2021

Biden signs bill to avert government shutdown; Congress remains in stalemate over debt limit

President Biden signed into law Thursday evening a short-term funding bill that will keep the federal government open through early December and avert a shutdown just hours before the funding was ready to expire.

September 30, 2021

Psaki ducks questions on Manchin’s $1.5T limit on Biden’s economic agenda

White House press secretary Jen Psaki ducked questions Thursday about whether Sen. Joe Manchin III told President Biden this summer he wouldn't back away from his $1.5 trillion limit on the president's plan to expand the social safety net.

September 30, 2021

FBI can’t back up claims in dozens of surveillance applications: Report

The FBI failed to support claims it made in almost 200 applications to the secret court that signs off on warrants to spy on Americans, the Justice Department's internal watchdog said Thursday.

September 30, 2021

Psaki pushes back on claims Biden needs to be more involved in infrastructure talks

White House press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back Wednesday on claims from some Democrats that President Biden needs to be more involved in negotiations to advance his multitrillion-dollar economic agenda.

September 29, 2021