Tag: Biden administration

Biden Wants To Crack Down On Bank Mergers. Here’s Why That Could Help Consumers And The Economy

By Jeremy Kress | July 30, 2021 11:46 a.m.

Oh No You Don’t: Fired Trump-Era Official Who Won’t Leave Is Blocked From Agency’s Computers

By Cristina Cabrera | July 13, 2021 11:17 a.m.

Biden’s New OPM Director May Be Among His Most Critical Appointees. Here’s Why.

OPM’s new director will be a critical player in delivering on Biden’s agenda and she should bring at least as much energy and creativity to the task of rebuilding the federal workforce as her predecessors did to their mission of destroying it.

By Eleanor Eagan | June 29, 2021 10:13 a.m.

Senate Progressives Determined Not To Get Hosed By Moderates On Infrastructure

By Kate Riga | June 24, 2021 1:53 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is swarmed by reporters as he leaves a meeting between a bipartisan group of Senators and White House officials as they attempt to come to a deal on the Biden administrations proposed infrastructure plan at the U.S. Capitol on June 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. After initial negotiations between the White House and Senate Republicans fell through a new bi partisan group of Senators came together with the hopes of reaching a deal for a much need infrastructure spending plan. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Joe Manchin

Senators Acknowledge That Time Is Running Out For A Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal

By Kate Riga and Josh Kovensky | June 23, 2021 5:18 p.m.

We Can’t Build Back Better Without Black Workers

It’s time to focus on the Black unemployment rate to ensure that we keep public investment going until all workers are doing well -- not just the ones who always have.

By Rakeen Mabud | June 9, 2021 2:35 p.m.

WH Isn’t Giving Up On Manchin Despite Voting Rights Logjam He Created

By Summer Concepcion | June 8, 2021 4:28 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 28: President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Biden spoke to a nation seeking to emerge from twin crises of pandemic and economic slide in his first speech to a joint session of Congress. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)

Ex-Prosecutors Dismayed Biden DOJ Working To Defend Trump In Accuser’s Defamation Suit

By Cristina Cabrera | June 8, 2021 3:01 p.m.

Biden Rules Out Presidential Commission To Probe Capitol Attack

By Summer Concepcion | June 3, 2021 6:28 p.m.

UNITED STATES - APRIL 28: Ketanji Brown Jackson, left, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, are sworn in during their Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/POOL)

Biden’s Slog To Counter Trump’s Imprint On The Judiciary Is Just Beginning

By Tierney Sneed | May 20, 2021 7:00 a.m.