President Biden delivered his final State of the Union before the 2024 election on Thursday evening.
It was a pivotal moment — a rare opportunity to speak unmediated to an American public that, right now, holds the president in low esteem.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Biden’s job performance with just 40 percent approving, according to the polling average maintained by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ.
Biden is a slight underdog in Nove...
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Biden goes after Trump in strikingly political State of the Union address
President Biden drew a sharp contrast with former President Trump and Republican lawmakers in Thursday’s State of the Union address, using the bully pulpit to harp on issues that will shape the general election campaign and sell voters on his first three years in office.
Biden’s remarks, which lasted just more than an hour, could at times be mistaken for a campaign address. The president did not refer to Trump by name at any point, but he said “my predecessor” 13 time...
Senate GOP divided over how tightly to embrace Trump
Donald Trump’s dominating victories on Super Tuesday cemented his lock on the Republican presidential nomination but Senate GOP leaders are reluctant to fully embrace the former president given his tendency to alienate college educated women and other swing voters.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) finally announced his endorsement of Trump on Wednesday, the same day Nikki Haley dropped out of the presidential race.
But McConnell indicated to reporters t...
As Biden preps sunny State of the Union, campaign has dire Trump warnings for Latinos
President Biden's reelection campaign is teeing up a multipronged attack strategy to portray former President Trump as harboring disdain against Latinos.
Ahead of the president’s Thursday evening State of the Union address, the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign shared with The Hill an outline of its Hispanic-facing pitch against Trump, emphasizing economic and health care issues with a splash of immigration, but centered on the former president's actions and rhetoric toward ...
Biden campaign tries to court Haley supporters, says Trump is driving them away
President Biden’s reelection campaign argued in a new memo on Wednesday that former President Trump is driving away Republican Nikki Haley voters, building on the president’s plea that there is a place in his campaign for her supporters.
First shared exclusively with The Hill, the memo from Biden communications director Michael Tyler said that “Trump is not seeking Haley’s voters, he is driving them away,” just hours after Haley dropped out of the race.
It argues tha...
The power of Congress’s purse is facing heightened scrutiny
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act. The act, enacted in July 1974, was the last major piece of legislation that President Nixon signed into law before leaving office under the certainty of impeachment and conviction.
The act has two parts. One that directly applies to the legislative branch’s “congressional” budget process and the second — its raison d’être — presidential power to impound monies appropr...
Biden cannot ignore the Latino State of the Union
Tomorrow night, President Biden will give his third — and possibly final — State of the Union address. With the eyes of the nation upon him, he will lay out his accomplishments and future agenda.
Watching closely will be Latinos, who comprise nearly 1 in 5 Americans. The Pew Center reports that a record 36 million Latinos will be eligible to vote in November.
But how has the president done on issues that matter to members of the country’s larges...
Congress can’t seem to solve its spending problem — we need a fiscal commission, now
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released its 10-year budget and economic projections, and the outlook appears dismal.
After years of warnings about the growing unsustainability of our debt, the CBO now projects that we are hitting a tipping point. Even using the most conservative measurement — $27 trillion— our debt will exceed the size of our entire economic output (GDP) next year, and will grow to over 170 percent of GDP in three decades. CBO also projects ...
ObamaCare back in court over preventive services
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Federal appeals panel skeptical of ObamaCare’s preventative care authority
A federal appeals panel appeared skeptical Monday of the constitutionality of an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision requiring insurers to cover specific preventive services.
Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans questioned whether the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) have the legal power to make recommendations, since its members are not appointed by the president or confirmed by the Senate.
The ta...