Keeping An Eye On The Biden Administration: Dueling border visits pit Biden and Trump against each other on No. 1 voter issue

March 01, 2024

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Dueling border visits pit Biden and Trump against each other on No. 1 voter issue

EAGLE PASS, Texas — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will both descend on the southern border Thursday in a historic showdown as each politician vies for the upper hand on voters’ top issue: immigration. Biden will touch down in the southeastern tip of Texas in Brownsville, while Trump, his likely Republican challenger […]

Mayorkas Senate impeachment trial to be delayed amid shutdown frenzy

The House is expected to delay delivering articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by at least one week, if not longer, the Washington Examiner has learned. The GOP-controlled House is expected to wait until after Congress has averted a partial government shutdown on Friday to hand off the two articles to the […]

‘Biden shoe’ jokes circulate following Trump’s Sneaker Con shoe deal

Former President Donald Trump launched a golden sneaker line called “Trump Sneakers” on Saturday, the day after a New York judge ordered him to pay nearly $355 million at a civil fraud trial. The $399 sneaker sold out on the website by Saturday night. The sneaker craze over the weekend amid the 2024 presidential election […]

Biden touts that his administration has been in East Palestine, Ohio, ‘since day one’

President Joe Biden shared a social media post on Monday that highlighted his recent visit to East Palestine, Ohio, in which he claimed his administration has been there “since day one.” The president’s claim was met with criticism after he made his first visit last week, which was one year since the toxic chemical train […]

Biden now says he’s ‘happy to meet’ with Speaker Mike Johnson on Ukraine aid bill

President Joe Biden now says he’s “happy to meet” with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a reversal from his stance in recent weeks. Johnson has been trying to set up a meeting with Biden for weeks to talk about funding for the war in Ukraine and for border security, calls the president rejected but is […]

Alejandro Mayorkas impeached by House over border crisis after surviving vote last week

House Republicans have impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a contentious vote Tuesday evening, making the Biden administration official the first Cabinet member to be removed in nearly 150 years. The vote was the second attempt by House Republicans to impeach Mayorkas after they failed to do so last week in an embarrassing blow to House Speaker […]