The president has seemingly undermined the push to raise the minimum wage by acknowledging its dim prospects in Congress, where it faces political opposition and procedural hurdles.
Minutes into her confirmation hearing, President Biden's nominee for director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Neera Tanden had to address concerns over hostile tweets she has posted against various Republican lawmakers.
Radioactive ? Neera Tanden, Biden s pick for budget chief, tries to win over critics on left and right Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – Neera Tanden has made some enemies.
The president of the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress and longtime aide to Hillary Clinton has earned a reputation in Washington as a policy heavyweight but also as a political combatant not afraid to wield her words on Twitter, rankling both conservatives and progressives across the political spectrum.
As President Joe Biden s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Tanden must convince some of her former adversaries that she s not as radioactive as Republican Sen. John Cornyn has described and that she s the right choice to helm an office critical to selling the administration s fiscal and legislative agenda.
Kylee Lee's lawsuit against a Virginia firm provides a window into an industry of federal contractors that has long been known for its lack of oversight and protections for workers.
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Guardian (UK)- Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.