aPróxima visita a los Campeones del Super Bowl Jefes de Kansas City El evento en 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue en Washington el viernes causó una tensión que normalmente no se siente en las ceremonias de campeonato de la Casa Blanca.
Hace apenas unas semanas, Kicker Heads carnicero harrisonhizo algunos comentarios polémicos sobre presidente joe biden y otros líderes católicos, criticándolos por “promover peligrosas ideologías de género entre la juventud estadounidense”. “Esto parece referirse a los derechos de las personas transgénero.
Durante su discurso en el Benedictine College, Butker no dudó en atacar a las personas de la comunidad LGBTQ, calificando el Mes del Orgullo como un “pecado mortal” y expresando su desaprobación hacia las iniciativas de diversidad e igualdad.
También señaló que las mujeres encuentran más satisfacción en el matrimonio y en tener hijos que en su vida profesional, diciendo: “Quiero dirigirme brevemente a ustedes directamente porque creo que ustedes, las mujeres, son a quienes les han dicho mentiras más diabólicas”.
Butker, que también es católico, continuó diciendo: “¿Cuántos de ustedes están sentados aquí ahora mismo a punto de cruzar este escenario y pensar en todas las promociones y títulos que obtendrán en su carrera? Algunos de ustedes podrían continuar”. Para liderar carreras: “Éxito en el mundo, pero me atrevería a suponer que la mayoría de ustedes están más entusiasmados con su matrimonio y los hijos que traerán a este mundo”. También rindió homenaje a su esposa Isabelle, diciendo que su vida realmente comenzó cuando aceptó su papel de esposa y madre.
Ahí es donde está, pero Taylor Swift
Mientras tanto, Travis Kelsey Parece que asistirá solo a la fiesta de los presidentes en la Casa Blanca. La ciudad de Kansas City publicó un video de él tomando el autobús hasta 1600 Penn Ave. Taylor Swift visión.
Joe Biden le entrega el micrófono a Travis Kelce de los Chiefs, creando un momento inolvidable
Kelce, Patrick Mahomes y el resto de los campeones del Super Bowl de 2023, incluido el controvertido joven receptor Arroz RushiA pesar de sus problemas con la ley, Joe Biden los honrará el viernes por la tarde. Muchos se preguntaron si la famosa novia de Kelsey se uniría a él.
Swift está en un breve descanso de su gira “Eras”, y la secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, Karine Jean-Pierre, informó que los Swifties en el edificio esperaban verla, pero probablemente no asistirán al concierto.
WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente Joe Biden y el expresidente Donald Trump acordaron el miércoles celebrar dos debates de campaña, el primero el 27 de junio presentado por CNN y el segundo el 10 de septiembre presentado por ABC, preparando el escenario para su primer enfrentamiento presidencial. Jugable en poco más de un mes.
El rápido acuerdo sobre el calendario se produjo después de que el demócrata anunciara que no participaría en los debates presidenciales de otoño patrocinados por el comité no partidista que los organiza desde hace más de tres décadas. En cambio, la campaña de Biden propuso que los medios de comunicación organizaran directamente los debates entre los presuntos candidatos demócratas y republicanos.
El debate se celebra inusualmente tan temprano en el calendario político que ni Biden ni Trump aceptarán formalmente la nominación de su partido.
Horas más tarde, Biden dijo que había aceptado una invitación de CNN y agregó: “Brindo por ti, Donald”. Trump, quien insistió en que debatiría con Biden en cualquier momento y en cualquier lugar, dijo en Truth Social que él también estaría allí y agregó: “¡¡¡Preparémonos para el Rumble!!!”. Poco después acordaron celebrar el segundo debate en ABC.
“Trump dice que organizará su propio transporte”, escribió Biden en X, hablando de las ventajas del cargo. “También traeré mi avión. Planeo conservarlo por otros cuatro años”.
La velocidad con la que se produjeron los enfrentamientos refleja cómo ambos candidatos impopulares creen que pueden vencer a su oponente en un enfrentamiento cara a cara. Trump y su equipo están convencidos de que los debates exacerbarán las preocupaciones de los votantes sobre la edad y la competencia de Biden, mientras que el equipo de Biden cree que la retórica a menudo incendiaria de Trump recordará a los votantes por qué lo expulsaron de la Casa Blanca hace cuatro años.
Los debates presidenciales, siempre un momento crucial en el calendario político, podrían ser especialmente importantes en un año en el que los votantes están confundidos por sus opciones y expresan preocupación por las edades avanzadas de los candidatos: Biden tiene 81 años y Trump 77.
Los dos rivales intercambiaron críticas en las redes sociales y cada uno de ellos se adjudicó la victoria la última vez que se enfrentaron en 2020.
“Donald Trump perdió dos debates contra mí en 2020 y no ha asistido a ningún debate desde entonces”, dijo Biden en una publicación en X. Y añadió: “Ahora actúa como si quisiera volver a debatir conmigo”. Bueno, que tengas un gran día, amigo mío”.
Por su parte, Trump dijo que Biden era “el peor polemista que he tenido: ¡no puede juntar dos frases!”.
Es probable que el debate de junio termine en una fase concurrida e inestable, tras la probable conclusión del juicio penal de Trump por fondos ilícitos en Nueva York, los viajes de Biden al extranjero a Francia e Italia, el fin del mandato de la Corte Suprema y el esperado inicio de dos sesiones. Juicios penales del hijo del presidente Hunter Biden.
CNN dijo que su debate se llevará a cabo a las 9 p.m. ET en sus estudios de Atlanta sin audiencia, rompiendo con un precedente reciente. CNN dijo que los moderadores serán los presentadores Jake Tapper y Dana Bash. ABC no proporcionó detalles sobre dónde se realizará el evento. Los desacuerdos sobre los moderadores y las reglas estuvieron entre las cuestiones que impulsaron la formación de la Comisión de Debates Presidenciales en 1987.
Las dos campañas y cadenas de televisión han sostenido semanas de conversaciones informales sobre formas de eludir el control del comité sobre los debates presidenciales después de años de quejas y desaires percibidos, según dos personas familiarizadas con el asunto que hablaron sobre discusiones internas bajo condición de anonimato.
La campaña de Biden había propuesto excluir por completo de los debates a candidatos de terceros partidos, como Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Según las reglas de la comisión de debate, Kennedy u otros candidatos de terceros partidos podrían calificar si obtuvieran suficiente acceso a las boletas para obtener 270 votos electorales y obtuvieran el 15% o más en encuestas nacionales selectas.
CNN y ABC anunciaron el mismo umbral de calificación, diciendo que los candidatos tendrían que alcanzar al menos el 15% en cuatro encuestas nacionales separadas de votantes registrados o probables que cumplan con sus criterios.
En respuesta, Kennedy acusó a Biden y Trump de “intentar excluirme de su debate porque temen que gane”. “Sacar a candidatos calificados del escenario del debate socava la democracia”, afirmó.
Aún no se han anunciado los planes para el debate vicepresidencial.
Trump ha estado presionando para que se realicen más debates tempranos, diciendo que los votantes deberían poder ver a los dos hombres enfrentarse antes de que comience la votación anticipada en septiembre. Incluso sugirió mantener una discusión fuera de la sala del tribunal de Manhattan donde actualmente se encuentra siendo juzgado. También se burló de Biden con un podio vacío en algunos de sus mítines.
En un memorando dirigido a la presidenta de la campaña de Biden, Jen O'Malley Dillon, el miércoles, los asesores principales de la campaña de Trump, Chris LaCivita y Susie Wells, desafiaron a Biden a aceptar al menos dos debates adicionales, proponiendo celebrar uno cada mes, con eventos en junio, julio y agosto. . y septiembre, además del debate vicepresidencial.
“Las fechas adicionales permitirán a los votantes obtener la máxima exposición a los registros y conocimientos futuros de cada candidato”, escribieron.
Más tarde, Trump publicó en Truth Social que había aceptado un tercer debate, organizado por Fox.
“Por favor, que este hecho represente que por la presente acepto la discusión sobre el delincuente Joe Biden en Fox News. La fecha será el miércoles 2 de octubre. Los anfitriones serán Bret Baier y Martha McCallum. ¡Gracias DJT!” el escribio.
O'Malley Dillon respondió con una declaración acusando a Trump de tener “una larga historia de jugar juegos de debate: quejarse de las reglas, violarlas, retirarse en el último minuto o no presentarse en absoluto”.
“No más juegos. No más caos, no más discusiones sobre debates. Veremos a Donald Trump el 27 de junio en Atlanta, si asiste”, escribió.
En una entrevista con el locutor de radio conservador Hugh Hewitt el miércoles por la mañana, Trump planteó dudas sobre si Biden asistiría y ofreció sus propias sugerencias. Dijo que los debates “deberían durar dos horas” con ambos hombres de pie, y también pidió lugares más grandes.
“Es más emocionante”, dijo.
La campaña de Biden ha guardado rencor durante mucho tiempo contra la comisión no partidista, acusándola de no aplicar sus reglas de manera uniforme durante las contiendas Biden-Trump de 2020, sobre todo cuando no aplicó las reglas de las pruebas de COVID-19 a Trump y su séquito.
O'Malley Dillon envió el miércoles una carta a la Comisión de Debates Presidenciales para decir que la campaña de Biden se oponía a las fechas propuestas para el debate de otoño, que se produciría después de que algunos estadounidenses comenzaran a votar, repitiendo una queja también expresada por la campaña de Trump. También expresó su frustración por las violaciones de reglas pasadas y la insistencia del comité en mantener discusiones frente a una audiencia en vivo.
“Los debates deben llevarse a cabo en beneficio de los votantes estadounidenses y verse por televisión y en casa, no como entretenimiento para una audiencia en persona con partidarios y donantes ruidosos o perturbadores”, escribió.
Tampoco hubo mucho amor por el panel por parte de Trump, quien objetó cuestiones técnicas en su primer debate con la demócrata Hillary Clinton en 2016, y se molestó cuando su debate de 2020 con Biden fue cancelado después de que el candidato republicano dio positivo por Covid-19. El Comité Nacional Republicano ya había prometido no trabajar con el comité en las elecciones de 2024.
La campaña de Trump emitió una declaración el 1 de mayo, diciendo sobre el calendario de debates presentado por el comité: “Esto es inaceptable”.
El comité dijo en un comunicado el miércoles: “El público estadounidense merece discusiones objetivas con los candidatos más destacados a presidente y vicepresidente”. Dijo que su misión es “asegurar que tales debates se lleven a cabo de manera confiable y lleguen a las audiencias más amplias de televisión, radio y en vivo”.
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anoticias sobre el Diario robado de Ashley, hija del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden, continúa apareciendo en los titulares. Los rumores sugieren que Ashley envió una carta a un juez de Nueva York afirmando que los diarios son reales, aunque aún no han aparecido informes oficiales.
Pero eso no ha impedido que el sitio de verificación de datos Snopes afirme que el contenido de la revista es cierto.
Se supone que las memorias, vendidas al medio conservador Project Veritas, hablan sobre el trauma sexual que la autora tuvo que soportar a una edad temprana.
Vídeo del inquietante comportamiento de Joe Biden con niños pequeñosX
Esto se produce después de que un tribunal de Manhattan condenara a una mujer llamada amy harris Para robar el diario personal de L. ashley. Se dice que el hombre de 41 años vendió la revista a un grupo de defensa conservador por 20.000 dólares.
Harris declaró más tarde que necesitaba dinero para criar a sus dos hijos. Se puso en contacto con la campaña de reelección de Donald Trump a través del controvertido periódico.
Muchas reacciones al supuesto contenido de los diarios de la hija de Biden
“Esto es enorme y nunca debe ignorarse. Descalificante, por decir lo menos”, escribió uno “.
El FBI inició una investigación sobre la filtración y realizó búsquedas entre residentes de James O'Keefe, fundador del Proyecto Veritas. No se presentaron cargos.
The Biden Administration has opened applications for $285 million in CHIPS Act funding for an institute to develop digital twins for the chip manufacturing industry. The investment aims to speed up silicon design and engineering while boosting national security. It’s part of a multi-billion-dollar push to establish the US as a thriving chip fabrication powerhouse, reducing dependence on the global supply chain and establishing technological dominance over China.
Digital twins are advanced software models of hardware (in this case, processors) that can help save time and money and increase efficiency. The virtual clones allow engineers to anticipate problems and adjust designs accordingly before manufacturing even begins. The auto industry and Space Force (for satellite simulations) have also used the tech.
The Department of Commerce says AI also plays a role. “Digital twin-based research can also leverage emerging technology like artificial intelligence to help accelerate the design of new U.S. chip development and manufacturing concepts and significantly reduce costs by improving capacity planning, production optimization, facility upgrades, and real-time process adjustments.”
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The funding is part of the 2022 CHIPS Act’s $39 billion allocated for semiconductor R&D. The US had already doled out billions in CHIPS Act manufacturing incentives, including $6.4 billion to Samsung, $6.6 billion for TSMC, $6.1 billion for Micron and $8.5 billion for Intel. However, Bloombergnotes that R&D funding like this could be the most crucial piece of the Biden Administration’s long game to spark homegrown silicon innovation and avoid scenarios where supply chain shutdowns halt parts of the US economy and national security.
The government says the institute’s funds will go toward basic operations, research on digital twins, establishing and supporting shared digital facilities and workforce training. The Biden Administration wants to avoid scenarios like depending on foreign adversaries for tech that can influence America’s national security (as the US military increasingly relies on advanced tech), economic independence and supply chain control.
The Biden Administration’s CHIPS program will host a meeting for potential applicants on May 16.
“This new Manufacturing USA institute will not only help to make America a leader in developing this new technology for the semiconductor industry, it will also help train the next generation of American workers and researchers to use digital twins for future advances in R&D and production of chips,” Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo wrote in a press release.
President Biden visits the US National Institutes of Health, which under his proposed budget would receive roughly the same amount of funding in the 2025 fiscal year as in the 2023 fiscal year.Credit: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty
US President Joe Biden today proposed modest increases in federal spending on science and innovation for the 2025 fiscal year. But that doesn’t mean his new budget will face an enthusiastic reception in Congress, which decides how much the government will spend.
Biden, a Democrat, has sought increases for many agencies in previous years but has run up against opposition among Republicans on Capitol Hill. Biden’s spending proposals for the 2024 fiscal year, which began in October, fared no better: in June 2023, after months of sparring, Democrats and Republicans agreed to spending limits for the 2024 fiscal year ― and for the 2025 fiscal year, likely quashing hopes that additional money will be poured into science.
Even after the June deal, the two sides continued to wrangle over the final numbers for the 2024 fiscal year. On 8 March, the Senate finally approved a spending package that cements the 2024 budget for most of the government’s largest science agencies. The House passed the bill on 6 March, and Biden is expected to sign it into law.
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Against that backdrop, Biden’s newly published budget proposal “is nothing more than a showcase for the policies and the spending that the White House would like to pursue if it had the ability to do so, which it doesn’t,” says Michael Lubell, a physicist at the City College of New York in New York City, who tracks federal science-policy issues. “My guess is that none of this is going anywhere.”
Science advocates are already expressing dismay over some aspects of the new White House proposal. For example, the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, which was signed into law in 2022 to boost investments in semiconductors and science, authorized up to $35 billion in funding for science and innovation at major science agencies in the 2025 fiscal year, but the White House has requested only $20 billion, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington DC. Nor has Congress followed through on those commitments.
Here are the White House’s proposed budget numbers for fiscal year 2025 for some key science-related agencies. Also noted is how each agency’s proposed funding compares to the amount appropriated for the 2024 fiscal year. The exception is for the National Institutes of Health, whose budget is compared to the amount appropriated for the 2023 fiscal year.
National Institutes of Health: $46.4 billion, 0.6% increase
The administration’s request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would keep the agency’s budget nearly flat for what will probably be the second year in a row. Lawmakers are still negotiating how much the NIH will receive in the 2024 fiscal year, but it is unlikely that the agency’s budget will be higher than in 2023. NIH director Monica Bertagnolli acknowledged in December that the 2024 appropriations process will be “painful”, particularly for early-career researchers. “A flat budget is a contracting budget,” she said.
In addition to the $46.4 billion the White House has requested for the agency in 2025, it has also asked for an additional $1.4 billion to support the Cancer Moonshot programme, which aims to at least halve the US cancer death rate in 25 years, and $1.5 billion for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which was created in 2022 to fund high-risk, high-reward biomedical research. The White House has also requested that the Department of Health and Human Services, the parent agency of the NIH, receive $20 billion for biodefence and pandemic preparedness, of which $2.7 billion would go to the NIH.
But it is unlikely that Congress will fund these additional programmes in full, says Ellie Dehoney, the senior vice president of policy and advocacy at Research!America, a non-profit organization in Arlington, Virginia, that advocates for health research. Overall, “these are disappointing numbers”, Dehoney says. This is not “what the United States needs to stay in the lead” of biomedical research, she says.
NASA: $25.4 billion, 2% increase
Biden requested significantly less for NASA for the 2025 fiscal year than he did for the 2024 fiscal year, but his new request would still provide the agency with a little more funding than Congress appropriated. NASA’s science budget would increase by 3%, with much of that boost going to the agency’s earth science division for restructuring several planned Earth-observing missions. NASA’s planetary sciences division would receive $2.7 billion; one major uncertainty is how much of that would go towards retrieving rock samples from the Martian surface. Last year the sample-return mission was estimated to cost as much as $11 billion; NASA and the European Space Agency are now looking at whether they can reduce the price tag.
The proposed budget would slash funding for the operation of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a pre-eminent telescope that has been operating since 1999. The agency would also reduce funds for the operations of the Hubble Space Telescope, though much less drastically than for Chandra.
The White House is seeking a substantial boost for the US Environmental Protection Agency in the 2025 fiscal year, but Congress moved in the opposite direction last week: the agency’s overall budget in the 2024 fiscal year will be 9.6% lower than in the 2023 fiscal year. The picture is similar for the agency’s science and technology programmes, which are taking a 5.5% hit in the current fiscal year, leaving them with $758.1 million. The White House is now calling for an increase of 33.2% for those programmes in the 2025 fiscal year, which would bring the budget for science and technology to more than $1 billion.
National Science Foundation: $10.2 billion, 12% increase
Biden’s request for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is 12% above the funds appropriated for the 2024 fiscal year. The request includes $2 billion for priorities outlined in the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, $1.4 billion for climate research and $300 million for infrastructure for large-scale research projects. The budget explicitly supports a single US extremely large telescope rather than the two such projects sought by astronomers.
The spending bill finalized last week imposed an 8.3% funding cut on the NSF — a “catastrophic” move for science, says Matt Hourihan, associate director of R&D and advanced industry at the Federation of American Scientists, an advocacy group based in Washington DC. But Biden’s request constitutes “a good budget that takes us in the right direction”, he says.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: $9.7 billion, 5.7% increase
The Biden administration requested $9.68 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency responsible for protecting public health. That would be a 5.7% increase over the agency’s funding for the 2023 fiscal year, but it is a smaller request than the $11.6 billion budget that the administration proposed for the 2024 fiscal year. “The request comes from, unfortunately, a return to austerity overall for discretionary funding,” says Dara Lieberman, director of government relations at Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), an advocacy group in Washington DC.
The budget includes substantial funding for efforts to modernize public health data systems: $225 million, a 28.5% increase over the amount appropriated for the 2023 fiscal year.
Department of Energy Office of Science: $8.6 billion, 4.2% increase
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, a major funder of research in the physical sciences, has weathered the budget storm better than most. The deal finalized by Congress last week increased the office’s budget for the 2024 fiscal year to more than $8.2 billion — a 1.7% increase over 2023 — and the White House is seeking another increase in the 2025 fiscal year.
The outlook is mixed for other parts of the DOE. The request for clean-energy programmes within the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, for example, is $5.1 billion. That is more than 46% higher than the amount that Congress appropriated for the 2024 fiscal year, but 9.4% less than the amount appropriated for the 2023 fiscal year. One clear winner is the National Nuclear Security Administration, an agency within the DOE that maintains the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons: its budget for the 2024 fiscal year is $19.1 billion, an increase of nearly $2 billion over the 2023 fiscal year, and the White House is seeking more than $19.8 billion for the 2025 fiscal year.
Urgent question
The White House proposal sets the stage for a new round of budget negotiations, but for Carney the most pressing question is how and when Congress will resolve questions about funding the rest of the government in the current fiscal year. As it stands, much of the federal government — including the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research — is poised to shut down in less than two weeks unless lawmakers act. And according to the budget agreement reached between Biden and the Republicans last year, further spending cuts will kick in if the Congress doesn’t finalize the appropriations process by the end of April.
TikTok’s future is looking increasingly uncertain as support grows for a new bill that would force the company to sell itself or face a ban in the United States. Now, President Joe Biden has come out in support of the measure, one day after it cleared its first legislative hurdle in the House.
“If they pass it, I’ll sign it,” he said, in remarks CBS News. The bill, called the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” which was introduced earlier this week, would give TikTok a six-month window to divest itself from parent company ByteDance or face an app store-level ban in the US. Meanwhile, Republicans in the House of Representatives could bring the bill to a floor vote as early as Wednesday, Semafor .
TikTok has said the bill is a thinly-veiled effort to force a “total ban” of its app. “This legislation has a predetermined outcome: a total ban of TikTok in the United States,” the company said in a statement earlier this week. “The government is attempting to strip 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression. This will damage millions of businesses, deny artists an audience, and destroy the livelihoods of countless creators across the country.”
The company has also encouraged its millions of users to oppose the measure. On Thursday, ahead of the committee vote on the bill, the app sent push notifications prompting users to call their representatives and ask them to oppose the legislation. The notifications reportedly led to of calls in many Congressional offices as staffers fielded hundreds of calls from teens.
Notably, the bill has another prominent opponent: former President Donald Trump. Though Trump also sought to force of TikTok to a US company during his time in office, the former president said he no longer believes the app should be banned. “If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Though clearing the House would be significant milestone for the bill, it’s unclear where the Senate stands on it. As Semafor points out, some prominent senators have been a bit more cautious in their comments about whether they would support the legislation. At a recent Senate hearing about child safety, several senators TikTok CEO Shou Chew on his own citizenship (he’s Singaporean) as well as the app’s ties to China and the practices of its parent company ByteDance.
Biden and Harris spoke at the annual awards dinner for the 52nd Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus. President Biden spoke to the Congressional Black Caucus on Saturday night in Washington, D.C., where he blamed “extreme Republicans” for Congress’s inability to reach a deal to avoid a government shutdown so far and for political violence.
At the yearly awards dinner for the CBC Foundation 52nd yearly Legislative Conference at National Town Hall, both the president and Vice President Harris spoke.
Harris said that the CBC is helping to “lead the fight for reproductive freedom” during her speech. Just like you are still leading the way in the fight for human rights, I also think that the right to feel safe is a human right. Gun crime is now the leading cause of death for American children. But instead of keeping our kids safe, extremists get in the way.”
The vice president also criticized officials in Florida for “wanting to tell our children that slaves benefited from slavery.” She was talking about a controversial part of Florida’s new African American history curriculum, which talks about how slaves learned skills that they could sometimes use to help themselves. After Harris had introduced him, Biden took the stage and thanked his vice president for working with him and “always fighting for freedom.” He said that Harris is “doing a great job,” which is true. I told you I would have a smart vice president and an African American woman, and we got one of each.”
He also thanked White House press officer Karine Jean-Pierre, who got a Co-Chair’s Award at the event, saying, “No wonder I’m doing okay.”
Biden said that some members of Congress are “sowing so much division” and are willing to shut down the government. He was talking about a few congressional Republicans who have said they won’t support the deal he made with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to avoid a government shutdown on October 1.
Biden said, “Just a few months ago, after long talks with the new speaker, we came to an agreement on spending levels that would allow the government to pay for important domestic and national security priorities while still cutting the deficit by $1 trillion over the next ten years.” “Now, a small group of extreme Republicans don’t want to keep the deal. So now everyone in America might have to pay for it.”
“Let’s be sure. If the government shuts down, members of Congress and the U.S. troops will have to keep working even though they won’t be paid,” he said. “A shutdown of the government could affect everything from the quality of food to studies on cancer to Head Start programs for kids. Congress’s most basic job is to figure out how to pay for the government. And it’s time for Republicans to start doing what Americans wanted them to do when they voted for them.”
The president also talked about the election in 2024. He repeated what he had said before, that “democracy is at risk” and that there is a “battle for the soul of America.” Biden said on Saturday that Americans no longer doubt that U.S. democracy is in danger now and will be in danger in 2020. “And thank God, because of all of you, we won,” he said about the 2020 presidential race. “I should also say that we won by a clear and convincing score of seven million votes. There were 81 million votes cast. This is the most ever. And that win held up in the face of 60 legal challenges and a revolt on January 6. So I’m going to run again.”
Biden, who is 80 years old, said that people talk about whether or not he is fit for office because of his age, but he said he “knew what to do” to help the U.S. and its friends when he became president in 2021.
“This country was on its back when I took office,” Biden said. “I was sure what to do. I got everyone shot and fixed up the economy. When Russia sent troops into Ukraine. I was sure what to do. I fixed up NATO. And used our union to bring the whole world together. And most importantly, I knew what to do when freedom was taken away.”
Later, he made fun of the fact that he had joined the U.S. Senate “200 years ago” in the early 1970s.
The president accused former President Trump and his MAGA Republican party for political divide and violence.
The president said that hate groups all over the country have been given more power, and the intelligence community has said that internal terrorism is the biggest threat to the U.S.
“That’s the biggest terrorist: one who is at home. Because it’s still far too common to be killed or attacked on the streets of America just because you’re black or because you’re wearing a religious sign. I want the whole country to join me in sending the greatest, clearest, most powerful message possible that political violence in America is never, never, never okay in our democracy. No way. He said, “Because democracy is at stake.”
Biden added, “There’s no doubt that Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans want to spread anger, hate, and separation. They will do anything to get power, and they want to destroy this system. We both can’t stand to see that happen. And I’ll always fight for, support, and protect our freedom.”
The president also said, “I got involved in the civil rights movement when I was a teenager in Wilmington, Delaware.”
“When I ran for the Senate for the first time, I was 29 years old, and Nixon won my state by 64%. I won, though, because almost 90% of the African American community voted for me, which is a big group,” Biden said. “You owe me.”
Biden also said that the 2017 shooting in Charlottesville and Trump’s statement at the time that “very fine people are on both sides” made him want to run for president in 2020.
“At the time, the president was asked what had happened. He said, “There are good people on both sides.” Both sides have nice people.’ “When I heard that, I knew I could no longer stay on the sidelines, because the President of the United States said yes, making those who stood for hate and those who stood against it morally the same,” Biden said.
During his speech on Saturday night, Biden also seemed to make some mistakes. He mispronounced the name of rapper LL Cool J and called him “boy” before quickly correcting himself. He was trying to praise LL Cool J and MC Lyte for their musical skills since they had just won the Phoenix Award at the yearly awards dinner for their musical efforts.
“LL and Jay Cool J, two of the best artists of our time and pioneers of hip hop in the United States, are…” As the crowd laughed, Biden said. “By the way, that boy—that man—has biceps that are bigger than mine.”
Biden has a history of calling black people “boy,” which is considered a racial slur when used to describe black guys. He did this earlier this year when discussing Maryland’s first black governor, Democrat Wes Moore.
During Trump’s time in office, ties between Hungary and the U.S. were good. The Hungarian foreign minister says that his country hopes that former President Donald Trump will return to the White House. He says that the relationship between the U.S. and Hungary has gotten worse because the Biden administration has been “lecturing” and getting in the way of policy.
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Fox News Digital that his country, which is run by a conservative government, had good ties with the U.S. when Trump was president, but that things have gotten worse now that Biden is in charge.
“During President Trump’s time in office, we had the best government relationship we’ve ever had with the United States. I think that’s because President Trump has built this friendship on mutual respect, and he didn’t mean to judge, lecture, or teach us,” he said. “He focused on making America better, which he called “America First.” He also focused on making our relationship better, which can help both of us.
He says that the Biden administration is now trying to get involved in domestic matters. He points to a plan to end a mutual tax deal that stopped double taxation in 2022 because Hungary cut its business income tax. Last month, the U.S. also made it harder for people with Hungarian passports to travel without a visa, claiming security worries. The government has also been attacked many times for its treatment of human rights. “The Democratic government is always trying to get involved in Hungary’s internal affairs. They judge us and give us lectures. The fact that they broke the mutual tax deal between the two countries shows that they tried to put political or economic pressure on us to change our policies, he said. “And that is not okay.”
He said that the “mutual respect” that existed before Trump is gone, and he claimed that politics are to blame.
“We know that the U.S. establishment is very upset that a conservative, right-wing, patriotic Christian Democrat government has been in power in Hungary for so long. But it’s not enough that we’ve been in power for a long time; we’ve also been successful, and I think this makes many liberal forces around the world very uncomfortable. So we do hope that President Trump will bring our friendship back to where it used to be.”
As an example of a unique difference, he brought up the war in Ukraine. He thinks there are about 150,000 Hungarians living in Ukraine, and some of them have been drafted into the army and sent to fight.
“So, to put it this way, we Hungarians are losing our countrymen, and we don’t want to lose any more Hungarians in this war. We don’t want any more people to die in this war, and not just Hungarians, he said. The U.S. has tried to end the war by giving money and weapons to Ukraine so that it can take back land that the Russians have taken, but Hungary thinks that sending weapons will only make things worse. Thursday, President Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the U.S. is “staying with you” while he tries to get Congress to give more money for the war effort.
Szijjarto said that his country wants the U.S. to bring “peace into the neighborhood, and not weapons.” He said he thought that was more likely to happen under former President Donald Trump, who is running for president again in 2024 and has said he would start peace talks to end the war if re-elected. “We understand where President Trump is coming from. He wants peace in our area. And we hope that a U.S. government will bring peace to the area, because we have to face the fact that there will be no peace in the area without the U.S., Szijjarto said. “As long as we listen to President Trump, this is very good news, and we’re crossing our fingers for him because we already know what to expect from him. We know how things were when he was in office, and the fact that he wants to make peace is also in our best interests as a country.
Szijjarto said, “We are not Americans, so it doesn’t matter what we think about domestic politics, and we would never interfere in domestic politics either.”
“But of course, we have a past and a future to look forward to. We know what it’s like to work together, and we want the president of the United States to bring peace to our area. And it’s President Trump.”
The jury had to get 21 votes to confirm the impeachment, but they did not get a two-thirds majority. After being cleared of state impeachment charges on Saturday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a harsh letter to the White House.
A group of Texas state representatives from both parties accused Paxton of being crooked, taking bribes, and not being fit for office. Paxton is a Republican. All 12 Democrats and two Republicans (Senators Robert Nichols and Kelly Hancock) on the jury decided to impeach him.
The attorney general was accused of misusing his political power to hire Nate Paul, a real estate developer who worked with Paxton’s claimed lover Laura Olson. In June, Paul was charged with making fake claims to banks.
Paxton was also accused of not doing his job, getting back at former employees who told authorities about his alleged wrongdoing, and making false statements about whistleblowing claims from former employees. The jury had to reach a two-thirds majority, or 21 votes, to approve the impeachment. This was not done. Saturday, the vote was over just before 1 p.m.
“The sham impeachment coordinated by the Biden Administration with liberal House Speaker Dade Phelan and his kangaroo court has cost taxpayers millions of dollars, disrupted the work of the Office of the Attorney General, and left a dark and permanent stain on the Texas House,” Paxton wrote in his letter.
“Using the impeachment process as a weapon to settle political disputes is not only wrong, but also immoral and corrupt,” the troubled attorney general said. Paxton then said that the White House was pushing “lawless policies” and promised that President Biden would be “held accountable.”
“Finally, I can promise the Biden Administration this: buckle up because your lawless policies will not go unchallenged,” the message said. “We won’t let you tear up the constitution or take away the rights of Texans,” they said. You’ll have to answer for what you did.”
