Tim Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, will deliver the G.O.P. rebuttal to Biden.
Senator Tim Scott has endeared himself to conservative groups with a strong small-government philosophy.Credit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
April 28, 2021, 5:41 a.m. ET
After President Biden delivers his first joint address to Congress Wednesday evening, the task of pushing back against the president’s vision will fall to Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Mr. Scott, 55, offers a brand of unapologetic conservatism that has helped him rise from a seat on the Charleston County Council to national prominence in the Republican Party.
Elizabeth Drew, Project Syndicate April 27, 2021
While former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner s recent memoir offers a tale of woe for his party, a new biography of Nancy Reagan shows just how far the institution has fallen. The big question now is whether the GOP will be able to reclaim respectability before it meets with complete ruin.Read Full Article »
April 28, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
President Biden met with a bipartisan group of politicians to discuss the American Jobs Plan in April.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
By John Lawrence
Dr. Lawrence, a former chief of staff to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has written extensively about Congress and American politics.
President Bidenâs first address to a joint session of Congress, on Wednesday night, will be scrutinized to assess his commitment to working with Republicans. There is nothing wrong with reaching across the aisle to seek common ground.
But insisting on bipartisanship â given the major policy divide between the parties on economic recovery, tax reform, climate change and health care â usually guarantees gridlock (which promotes voter cynicism) or actions that are watered down and ineffective (which are condemned by everyone, right and left).
The prime-time speech Wednesday has been timed to mark his 100th day in office later this week. The address will not resemble past presidential speeches to.
Withdraw the new vaccine policy: Central trade unions to government
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“The vaccine policy announced by the government puts corporate profits above the precious lives of people. Today, it is crucial to strictly regulate, under direct government supervision, the entire vaccination process to ensure that the entire population is vaccinated within a definite time frame,” the 10 central trade unions said in a letter to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
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The joint platform of 10 central trade unions have asked the government to withdraw the new vaccine policy, which they call as pro-corporate as well as discriminatory, and take immediate measures to ensure free of cost universal vaccination to all utilising the funds from the PM care fund.