Page 20 - Simon Jackman News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Liz Cheney was removed from her position in Congress because “she was running a different narrative” than the Republicans want to push, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “What I think you’re seeing is an effort to consolidate the Republican Party (for) what’s going to be their strategy for those 2022 elections,” he told Sky News. “The Republicans are going to be thinking of this base election, Democrat turnout is not going to be as high as it was when the presidency was at stake and the voice that are splitting the Republican Party at the moment need to be silenc...

President Joe Biden’s ambitious climate plan to halve the US emissions by 2030 may not have the support from Congress it needs “to match the aspiration” of what it is trying to achieve, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “To reach the ambition he even laid out for the 2030 target he needs Congress to act, I don’t know if the appetite is there in Congress to match the aspiration he talked about in the global climate summit,” he told Sky News. “Something is going to happen, I think there’s a lot of money there particularly that electric vehicle spend, that’s a l...

Login Biden's spending plans are 'the biggest expansion of the state' since the 1960s30/04/2021|5min President Joe Biden has had a “remarkable 100 days” as he announces massive spending to fund social reform like past President Lyndon Baines Johnson, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “Increasingly I’m looking (at) historical analogues, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, in terms of the rallying of the nation around a grand purpose and that purpose is, as Biden said in that speech to Congress, the fight for the 21st Century to show the world that democracy still works,�...

US border surge crisis is a 'domestic issue not going well for Biden'30/04/2021|8min The migrant surge at the US-Mexico border is a “domestic issue that isn’t going well” for President Joe Biden as protesters interrupted a Georgia rally to call for the closure for detention centres, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. “You saw at the rally the cross pressure, the left of the Democratic base are fired up about a lot of issues but this is one of them and they really want a big, big point of difference between the Trump administration and the Biden administration,” he to...

Prime Minster Scott Morrison’s speech at the virtual US-hosted climate summit was in line with the government's strategy of “accentuating the positive” of Australia’s climate policy, says US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman. Mr Jackman said this involved saying “the fact Australia didn’t leave" the Paris or Kyoto climate agreements but was “leaving the door for further announcements” for the Glasgow summit later this year. “It was about what I expected from the Australian prime minister as we all know the politics of climate change here in Australia; very, very fra...