U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he sees room for a compromise on his proposal for trillions of dollars in infrastructure spending after meeting with Republican leaders but will move forward without the opposition party if necessary.
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President Joe Biden broke his silence late Wednesday about the terrorism plaguing Israel as the growing conflict threatens to spark a full-scale war.
In his first public comments on the two-day-long crisis, Biden said he recently spoke with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and expressed his support for Israel s efforts to defend itself from a barrage of more than 1,000 rockets launched by Palestinian terrorists. Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory, he said, adding that his expectation and hope is that this will be closing down sooner than later.
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Firefighters from Austin Fire Department Station 22 wear protective face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
Passage of federal pandemic aid to states and local communities has resulted in a windfall of more than $15 billion for Texas.
Republicans in Congress have derided the relief money as an unnecessary bailout for cities that mismanaged their budgets during the pandemic. But Texas cities and other local governments stand to benefit in a big way from the infusion of federal dollars – an amount that far outstrips the economic impact of the pandemic itself.
Todd Gillman is Washington bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News. He told Texas Standard that it took 60 days for the amount of money coming to Texas to become clear because of the way federal relief is distributed. Now that the numbers are in, local governments are figuring out how the money can and cannot be used – and there’s a lot to work with, since estimates suggest Texas lost around $
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President Joe Biden held his first White House meeting with Republican leaders from Congress on Wednesday in search of common ground on his proposals to spend trillions of dollars on U.S. infrastructure, education and childcare.
Biden, a Democrat and former longtime U.S. senator from Delaware, has sought to reduce partisan tension in Washington and pledged to work with both parties to advance his policy goals, which face stiff opposition from Republicans.
“The bottom line here is we’re going to see whether we can reach some consensus” on a compromise over infrastructure, Biden said at the start of talks with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives respectively.