Biden news today: President jokes about ‘good old days’ with Obama as he pauses
Obama jokingly calls Biden ‘vice president’ on return to White House
Barack Obama visited the White House on Tuesday for his first public event at the executive mansion since he left office. He participated in a celebration of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, as Joe Biden announced changes to the healthcare programme that could see as many as 200,000 uninsured Americans become eligible for new coverage.
The visit has many Democrats hoping that Mr Biden can benefit from his former boss’s still-high approval rating among the Democratic base. Mr Biden has lately struggled to raise his poor standing in the polls and there are serious worries that apathy and disappointment among Democratic voters could give an opening to Republicans in this year’s midterm elections. Mr Obama says that to win in the midterms, Democrats have a story to tell, they “just got to tell it.”
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday voted 11-11 on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. The result will not stop Ms Jackson’s nomination from proceeding to the Senate floor; she appears to already have the support of 53 senators, with Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney all breaking ranks to back her.
Republicans ridicule Biden and claim Obama ‘ignored’ him
Republicans tried to ridicule Joe Biden after some video clips surfaced claiming Barack Obama ignored the president.
Conservative lawmakers and commentators alleged that Mr Obama stole the show during his visit to the White House on Tuesday.
In widely-shared video clips – that many have said are out-of-context — the president can be seen raising his hands in exasperation as a group of people showered Mr Obama with attention.
Maroosha Muzaffar6 April 2022 07:54
Kinzinger criticises GOP members for unwillingness to speak on Ukraine
Illinois Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger criticised members of his party on Tuesday for what he sees as their unwillingness to speak out against the crisis in Ukraine.
“We are being governed by a bunch of children,” Mr Kinzinger said. “By a bunch of people that are not serious about running the United States of America and truly don’t understand the threat that’s out there from Vladimir Putin, from China and from some of these actors in the world that want to destroy our place here.”
“The world order is being challenged for the first time since World War II and they’re sitting around thinking today about how we can win our next election, what the newest outrage is, what’s the next thing we can do to get people angry and upset and get their money from them for our reelection,” he added.
Maroosha Muzaffar6 April 2022 07:16
Obama jokes with ‘vice-president Biden’
Former US president Barack Obama joked with Joe Biden during his return to the White House on Tuesday and referred to the president as “vice-president.”
Mr Obama joined Mr Biden on Tuesday as he signed an executive order to strengthen the Affordable Care Act.
Maroosha Muzaffar6 April 2022 06:51
Fox News skips covering Barack Obama at the White House
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