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Biden Admin ‘backs off’ on Electric Car push

The Biden administration is expected to loosen its rules for the country’s switch to electric vehicles (EVs), The New York Times first reported Saturday, citing three people familiar with the plan. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) change in its proposed rule would implement less stringent requirements for vehicle pollution in the short term — effectively […]

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Pelosi calls Trump ‘Despicable’ & ‘Grotesque’

Nancy Pelosi is past pulling punches for former President Donald Trump. “He’s grotesque,” the House speaker emerita told Newsweek in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in southern Germany on Saturday. The annual event sees leaders and lawmakers from around the world gather in Germany for three days of “diplomatic […]

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Biden; “sympathetic old man with poor memory”

President Biden fiercely defended his cognitive abilities and memory Thursday, in the wake of a special counsel report that offered a scathing assessment of his recollection of key elements of his life and political career. Biden squarely pushed back on the report’s most eyebrow-raising details, in which special counsel Robert Hur calls Biden “a sympathetic, […]

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White House plans to reduce deportations

Senior Republicans reacted with fury after White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would “be forced to reduce its [migrant] removal operations” after Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan immigration and foreign aid agreement backed by the Biden administration. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Jean-Pierre said: “Because congressional […]