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Feb. 10, 2021
Months of often violent protests against Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse have repeatedly brought life to a halt in the capital, Port-au-Prince.Credit.Valerie Baeriswyl/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Sunday should have been a day of celebration in Haiti. It marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship, and the last day in office of the despised President Jovenel Moïse. Instead, it was another day from hell.
Rather than leave office, Mr. Moïse claimed that he had foiled a coup. He sent troops in the middle of the night to round up a judge, a senior police officer and more than 20 others. The fragmented opposition, in the meantime, compounded the crisis by installing two presidents a Supreme Court judge who had been fired by Mr. Moïse and a lawyer in Haiti’s north.
“We won t be doing any of that until we pass our COVID bill. That s the first order of business,” Pelosi told reporters at a news conference.
Pelosi said that the sergeant-at-arms and the attending physician would be making recommendations about how to have a joint session in a safe way amid the coronavirus pandemic and increased security threats following the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol.
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Biden has said he plans to address Congress in February and use the speech to lay out his recovery plan, which he wants Congress to pass after the initial coronavirus relief package he has proposed.
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In December 2016, a month before Donald Trumpâs inauguration, I wrote a column that I called âInvasion of the Agency Snatchers.â The reference was to the great 1956 science fiction film âInvasion of the Body Snatchers,â in which a truckload of giant vegetable pods arrives in a typical American town. Each pod takes over the identity of a local inhabitant, erasing everything that made the person human while maintaining a perfectly preserved outward appearance.
Many viewers interpreted the movie as a political allegory. Some saw Communism, some McCarthyism. I saw the Trump cabinet, then in formation.
“I regret that language and take responsibility for it,” Tanden, a frequent cable news guest over the past several years, said in a line she added to the prepared opening statement released to the media ahead of the hearing. “Over the last few years, it’s been part of my role to be an impassioned advocate. I understand, though, that the role of OMB director calls for bipartisan action, as well as a nonpartisan adherence to facts and evidence,” she said, referring to the Office of Management and Budget.
Tanden’s nomination to lead OMB in the fall was greeted with guffaws by Republicans who had been targeted by her barbs for years. A longtime adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Biden Appointments Signal a Trade Approach That Hews to the Left
Many appointees who will fill the ranks of the Office of the United States Trade Representative have close ties to congressional Democrats and a focus on worker rights and enforcing trade deals.
Several new appointees have worked closely with Katherine Tai, the Biden administration’s nominee for United States trade representative.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Published Feb. 8, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
WASHINGTON The Biden administration announced a number of personnel appointments on Monday for the Office of the United States Trade Representative with close ties to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, in a signal that the new administration is likely to pursue what it calls a “worker focused” approach to trade.