While President-elect Biden’s administration plans its first steps on student load debt, a debate is raging about whether loan forgiveness could cause a backlash. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 45 million…
Continue ReadingNot for the first time, people are having strong feelings about Pete Buttigieg. President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he’d nominate the former Democratic presidential rival and mayor of South…
Continue ReadingWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden introduced his one-time Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg as his nominee for transportation secretary Wednesday, saying the 38-year-old can be “a new voice”…
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that he is nominating his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation. He also intends to choose former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as his…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL BALSAMO, JONATHAN LEMIRE, THOMAS BEAUMONT and ELLEN KNICKMEYER WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden nominated his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation on Tuesday and intends…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick his former rival Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary, according to…
Continue ReadingPresident-elect Joe Biden’s pick for secretary of state is expected to visit the State Department and meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday for the first time since…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Electoral College meeting (all times local): Electors gathered in 50 states and the District of Columbia on Monday to formally affirm President-elect Joe…
Continue ReadingWhy Michael Morell Cannot Be CIA Director Tyler Durden Sun, 12/13/2020 – 22:30 Authored by Ray McGovern via ConsortiumNews.com, As President-elect Joe Biden names his cabinet and other chief advisers,…
Continue ReadingA cloud of dust spread across Little Village after the shuttered Crawford Coal Plant smoke stack was imploded on April 11, 2020. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times The city’s actions on General…
Continue ReadingEx-general Lloyd Austin is Biden’s pick for Secretary of Defence. Although it looks woke, it’s anything but, as Polly Boiko explains Subscribe to RT! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg?sub_confirmation=1 RT LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAcqaNzNSc Check out …
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Continue Reading“I would not be asking for this exception if I did not believe this moment in our history called for it,” Biden said Wednesday. See source
Continue ReadingJoe Biden, in defending his decision to nominate retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin as his Defense secretary pick on Tuesday, cited Austin’s “intimate knowledge of the Department of Defense and…
Continue ReadingRetired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin would be the first African American to lead the Defense Department, but a waiver from Congress is needed because he’s been retired from the military…
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