Новости за 18.12.2022

Former President Trump declined to endorse a candidate for next month’s election to determine the chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) during an interview with Breitbart. Ronna McDaniel, who has led the committee since 2017, is running for a third term but faces a challenge from RNC member Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney who has...

White House adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms on Sunday cited the disruptiveness caused by presidential travel as a reason why President Biden hasn't been to the southern border, a criticism levied by Republicans amid a crisis that has seen a record number of migrants crossing into the U.S. “Well, you have to remember... when the President travels it is...

President Biden on Sunday attended a private church mass with his family to mark the 50th anniversary of the deaths of his first wife and daughter.   The White House said the president and first lady Jill Biden attended a private memorial mass with family at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Greenville,...

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) on Sunday expressed optimism that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will find the necessary votes to become Speaker next month. “I think we will get there, and I'm not budging off my support of Speaker McCarthy,” Gallagher said on CNN’s “State of the Union” with co-anchor Jake Tapper. “But you're...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk and former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner were spotted enjoying the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 final on Sunday at Lusail Stadium in Lusail City, Qatar. Musk live-tweeted the match between Argentina and France through text and videos. "Duel in the Desert," he tweeted. "Couldn't ask for a better game,"...

Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar (Texas) on Sunday urged the State Department to have a “far more direct engagement” in response to the ongoing migrant surge at the U.S. border with Mexico.  During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Escobar told host Shannon Bream that she believes it is important to have “more robust support” from...

A group of former U.S. military leaders are urging Congress to help Afghan evacuees vulnerable to deportation by passing the Afghan Adjustment Act as part of the omnibus government funding bill. “We are convinced that the Afghan Adjustment Act furthers the national security interests of the United States. It is also a moral imperative,” wrote...

House Republicans are preparing to rebut the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, which is set to release its findings later this week, an Indiana lawmaker said. Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told Axios that his Republican colleagues will "focus on security failures." Banks also told the news outlet the...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Sunday knocked President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for not visiting the U.S.-Mexico border amid a surge in migrants and blamed the administration for the ongoing crisis.   “The reason they’re not going, I understand from a political perspective, is [it's] an ugly story for them. They have...

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on Sunday challenged a call from Florida's GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate COVID-19 vaccines, arguing Republicans should not "undermine science" and medical experts. Hutchinson told NBC's "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd that he was "for the education and the science" behind the COVID-19 vaccines and protecting Americans from...

Wouldn’t it be better to raise the forced retirement age from 65 to 67 to keep qualified individuals on the flight deck?

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Sunday said federal agencies need to address the cryptocurrency market and "maybe" ban it after the high-profile collapse of cryptocurrency market FTX last month. Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, told NBC's "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd that the Treasury Department and "all...

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said on Sunday that a “hurricane of migrants” is hitting the city of El Paso, Texas as migrants surge to the U.S.-Mexico border.   “It is a dire situation in El Paso. As you know, the city declared a state of emergency. This is something you do when there’s a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake. What is happening...

Populism, at least American style, has to focus on improving the economic plight of the working class, comforting the afflicted and — when necessary — afflicting the comfortable.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Sunday sidestepped questions about whether he'd leave the Democratic Party after being asked about his comments regarding his serving in the Senate as an "independent voice." Manchin avoided saying outright if he'd join fellow centrist Sen. Krysten Sinema (I-Ariz.), who shocked Washington earlier this month by announcing that she would become an...

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, said Americans seem "confused" about whether they need an updated COVID-19 vaccine booster, urging people to get another shot if it's been six months since their last one. Jha told ABC's "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz that people are still "learning about the new COVID vaccine,"...

Artemis II and DearMoon will have different goals: scientific and creative.

Retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Sunday said former President Trump's 2024 campaign is having an "unbelievably terrible rollout" while assessing Trump's influence on the GOP as "absolutely" waning in part due to the outcome of the midterm elections. When asked by CNN's Jake Tapper if he thought Trump's hold on the party was "finally slipping," Toomey...

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) on Sunday said it is "past time" for the controversial border policy Title 42 to be lifted, saying the U.S. is in a "much different place" in the COVID-19 pandemic. Padilla told ABC's "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz that the Biden administration has been preparing for months to lift the policy....

The political landscape would be far different for Democrats right now were it not for Georgia.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) on Sunday said U.S. users should delete the social media app TikTok, owned by the China-based parent company ByteDance, over concerns about its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).   “I recognize, particularly as a younger member of Congress, this will make me very unpopular with your teenagers and many others," Gallagher told CNN’s...

President Biden is riding high in a number of ways as he closes the door on 2022. He’s coming off a strong midterm election that saw his party gain a Senate seat and two governorships. Democrats lost the House majority but did much better than expected, ensuring the GOP’s majority in the next Congress will...

Much like a Christmas list, the omnibus is usually filled with all sorts of goodies — but not everyone always gets what they want.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy (Texas) on Sunday accused Democrats of using immigrants as “political pawns” amid a surge of border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas.   “Democrats want to simply throw more money at the border and then process more human beings while they're getting abused. They're the ones using them as...

The arrival of so many migrants fleeing increasingly untenable situations in undemocratic societies should sound warning bells in Washington.