Kevin Freking and Lisa MascaroAssociated Press WASHINGTON President Joe Biden on Friday dismissed a fresh Republican infrastructure proposal that offered
President Joe Biden has no plans to create a presidential commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement Thursday.
President Joe Biden arrived to speak at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Wednesday.Credit.Oliver Contreras for The New York Times
President Biden issued a new executive order on Thursday barring Americans from investing in Chinese firms linked to the country’s military or engaged in selling surveillance technology both inside and outside of China used to repress dissent or religious minorities.
The new order, which initially lists 59 Chinese firms, substantially expands an order issued in November by President Donald J. Trump. By rewriting that earlier order to include firms engaged in making and deploying the surveillance technology used against Muslim minorities like the Uyghurs and dissidents in Hong Kong and in the Chinese diaspora around the globe it intensifies a commercial and ideological battle between Beijing and Washington, one that Mr. Biden has termed the struggle between “autocracy and democracy.”
The White House on Thursday signaled that it was willing to negotiate over US President Joe Biden’s pledge to increase the corporate tax rate.
Biden offered to drop his proposal to return the top corporate tax rate to 28 percent where it had been before a tax cut in 2017 from its current 21 percent level, the Washington Post reported.
Citing sources familiar with the discussions, the newspaper said that the offer was made in a private White House meeting on Wednesday with US Senator Shelley Moore Capito as the president looks for opposition support for his spending plans.
However, White