President Joe Biden on Friday delivered a message of hope and optimism on the declining number of Covid-19 cases and increased vaccination rates ahead of
The Daily 202: Biden faces bipartisan pressure on China’s Olympics Olivier Knox
Sainte-Mère-Église. There’s an homage to the 82nd Airborne. Congressional Republicans and Democrats agree on precious little these days, but there’s growing bipartisan fervor you could even call it impatience related to President Biden’s business-as-usual approach to the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
Biden faces pressure from both sides of the aisle to use the Games, which open in early February 2022, as a launchpad for criticism of China over what his administration agrees is “genocide” targeting the mostly Muslim
Uyghur minority. Today, a pair of lawmakers Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) are reportedly introducing legislation aimed at punishing corporations that sponsor the Games by barring them from federal contracts.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) President Joe Biden started the Memorial Day weekend by visiting a rock climbing gym in northern Virginia as the state lifted all COVID-19 distancing and capacity restrictions at private businesses and much of the nation pushes toward a greater sense of normalcy.
President Biden thanked members of the military at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia on Friday during a speech marking the administration’s efforts to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.