Progressives in the House were apprehensive when Joe Biden stepped into office the President was an unabashedly moderate Democrat and ready to cut deals with Republicans, many of whom he had known longer than some progressive members of Congress had been alive.
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(WSIL) President Joe Biden declared Wednesday night in his first address to a joint session of Congress that “America is rising anew,” and pointed optimistically to the nation’s emergence from the pandemic as a vital moment to rebuild the U.S. economy and fundamentally transform roles the government plays in American life.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell didn t agree with many of the statements the President made Wednesday.
“I think the story line on the Biden Administration, underscored by the President’s speech tonight, could best be described as ‘bait and switch.’ The ‘bait’ was he was going to be a moderate, a unifying force and bring us all together. The ‘switch’ is that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), for all practical purposes, won the debate in the Democratic Party over what it ought to look like. I’m hard pressed to find anything moderate about the Biden Administration, which is why Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) a
Man found guilty of threatening lawmakers after trial testimony from Capitol police, Ocasio-Cortez staffer By Cassidy McDonald AOC staffer testifies in trial on threats
After a one-week trial that featured testimony from a Capitol police officer and a staffer for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Trump supporter was found guilty Wednesday of threatening to assault and murder members of U.S. Congress in online statements he made before and after the January 6 Capitol attack.
Brendan Hunt, 37, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 22, and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, the Justice Department said.
Hunt s was believed to be the first criminal trial in a case connected to the Capitol riot, though he did not participate in the siege in D.C. He was charged instead for statements he made online. A video that prosecutors said he posted two days after the Capitol riot on the video-sharing site Bitchute was titled KILL YOUR SENATORS and