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 Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyPresident Joe Biden's agenda for his first 100 days can't be criticized for a lack of ambition. But as key components of his policy priorities, from raising the national minimum wage to wage discrimination against workers with disabilities, have fallen victim to the filibuster, stakeholders in the Equality Act—one of his key legislative goals—grew increasingly frustrated with the White House's white-knuckle commitment to an item that never appeared on his long list of commitments to voters during the campaign: confirming Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
For reasons both high-minded and mundane, Tanden's nomination to the position hung by little more than a single thread, pinched in the ambivalent fingers of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) after nearly every moderate Republican in the Senate, as well as Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), said that they wouldn't vote to confirm her. On Tuesday, Tanden announced that she was withdrawing her nomination, despite White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain's promise that the administration was "fighting our guts out" for Tanden's confirmation, no matter the vanishingly long odds.
Outside the administration, however, advocates for more popular priorities—and, arguably, more im
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 Carlow Allegri/ReutersI've been wrong before. In my 42 years I've had the privilege of being wrong many times and since I've been sober since I was 19, I can't now blame booze. Besides being wrong many times, I've also crushed it with some scorchingly bad hot takes, like my piece about how Biden should drop out a few days before he won South Carolina. Spoiler alert: He's president now so I didn't exactly nail that one. But "Why We Are Crushing on Andrew Cuomo Right Now" may have been my worst take.
A caveat: I did not write the headline. I do not have the power to approve or write my headlines. But since three much younger women, two of them former staffers, accused New York's governor of harassment over the last week that headline is what people online have used to dunk on me. As Aristotle said, "Live by the tweet, die by the tweet—or figure out how to auto-delete your tweets."
And headline aside, the piece was extremely bad and not at all good. In my defense, I did note his partnership with the very sketchy IDC, "a group of supposed Democrats who helped the Republicans control the New York State Senate for many years." I called him joyless, but I also noted "what a difference a pandemic makes" as I praised my "competent governor/imaginary boyfriend."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 America's infrastructure received an overall grade of C- from the American Society of Civil Engineers, according to the group's 2021 Report Card, released Wednesday.
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The president also called into a weekly luncheon of Senate Democrats as he seeks to shore up support for $1.9 trillion legislation.
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Standing onstage in December at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, Joe Biden described his freshly nominated pick to run the White House budget office, Neera Tanden, as "brilliant." He cited her hardscrabble upbringing. And he even quoted his father to emphasize her set of values.
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 President Biden won the White House because the coronavirus let him stay hidden in his basement, protecting his campaign from its biggest liability — the candidate himself, a new book says.
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Rouse is the first Black person, and only the fourth woman, to lead the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Christopher A. Wray condemned the Capitol riot and told the Senate Judiciary Committee that agents had opened 2,000 domestic terrorism inquiries in recent years.
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 Comedy CentralIn mid-February, The Daily Show's Trevor Noah was one of the first late-night hosts to really give it to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over his cover-up of COVID nursing home deaths, comparing his aversion to reality to former President Donald Trump's. And now, Noah is going hard in the paint on Cuomo's series of sexual-harassment allegations. Thus far, two former aides to Cuomo have accused him of making lewd comments and unwanted advances (allegations Cuomo has denied), and this week, a third woman came forward to The New York Times accusing him of aggressively pawing her and trying to kiss her at a wedding.
After thanking Cuomo for his wedding toast about her friends, Anna Ruch, now 33, told the Times that Cuomo put his hand on her bare lower back. "When she removed his hand with her own, Ms. Ruch recalled, the governor remarked that she seemed ‘aggressive' and placed his hands on her cheeks. He asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear. Ms. Ruch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer," reported the Times. Ruch says she was "confused and shocked and embarrassed" by the unwanted advance.
"Jesus, man! What are you doing? I mean, on the one hand, asking women for consent before you kiss them is what you're supposed to do, but the other part of consent is waiting for them to answer! You don't just grab them on the face like a
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 Rep. Jim Clyburn, a powerful House Democrat from South Carolina, lashed out against the Senate filibuster Tuesday as an obstacle to civil rights and said people of color will not stand by and let archaic rules deny progress on raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Raimondo, a former venture capitalist who was re-elected to her second term as Rhode Island's chief executive in 2018, will assume command of a federal agency with sweeping responsibilities and an increasingly important portfolio.
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Mr. Jordan, who was selected to head the National Urban League while still in his 30s, counseled presidents and business leaders.
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Neera Tanden, Biden's pick to head his budget office, faced bipartisan opposition stemming from sharp tweets targeting senators. Tanden said she saw no path to confirmation, and Biden vowed to find a place for her in the administration.
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As President Joe Biden urges Democrats to remain united against poison pill amendments that may come up in an hours-long, overnight vote-a-rama later this week, Republicans are preparing to make the final hours of the Democratic efforts to pass their relief bill politically painful and physically exhausting.
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 White House press secretary Jen Psaki was pressed about the Biden administration's taking credit for a partnership between Johnson & Johnson and Merck.
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President Biden and top Democrats are working to ensure that frustration over the exclusion of the minimum wage increase in the stimulus plan does not overshadow the success of the package.
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Former US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on Monday questioned the Biden administration's current guidance on getting both Covid-19 vaccine shots for the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines -- which were tested and authorized as a two-dose regimen spaced a few weeks apart -- in order to offer at least some protection immediately to more Americans.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray was live on CNN and MSNBC when he told a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday morning that the FBI had not yet found any evidence that subscribers to the Antifa movement were involved in the January attack on the US Capitol.
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The Senate confirmed Gina Raimondo as President Biden's commerce secretary and Cecilia Rouse as the head of the Council of Economic Advisers.
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Chief Justice John Roberts has singlehandedly slowed a conservative revolution at the Supreme Court in recent years, but he has for even longer -- 40 years -- opposed racial remedies and narrowly construed the landmark Voting Rights Act.
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 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday called the growing sexual harassment allegations against New York Andrew Cuomo "serious [and] very troubling" but stopped short of calling for the embattled Democrat's resignation.
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The F.B.I.'s director, Christopher A. Wray, testified before the Senate on Tuesday about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. His testimony focused on the emergence of domestic terrorism and the identification of extremist groups involved in the attack.
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 Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced legislation calling for the erection of a monument dedicated to the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at the U.S. Capitol.
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The action came as the administration declassified an intelligence finding that the F.S.B., one of Russia's leading intelligence agencies, was responsible for the poisoning of Aleksei A. Navalny.
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The White House had insisted that it would stand by Neera Tanden as President Biden's top budget official, but it became clear that she did not have the Senate votes to be confirmed.
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 President Biden on Tuesday announced a new effort to vaccinate educators and childcare workers as a means to accelerate the safe reopening of schools.
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President Joe Biden is expected to huddle with Senate Democrats on Tuesday as the chamber gears up to pass the White House's top legislative priority: a major pandemic relief plan.
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 Fox NewsFox News contributor Tomi Lahren brought right-wing media's obsession with so-called "cancel culture" to its inevitable full circle on Tuesday, calling for conservatives to "start canceling" the companies that engage in "cancel culture."
After devoting multi-day outrage cycles over Mr. Potato Head and The Muppets being the latest victims of a supposed cancel-culture mob—neither of them, of course, were actually canceled—Fox News spent much of Tuesday complaining about the news that six Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published due to racist and insensitive imagery.
"These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr. Seuss Enterprises said in a statement on Tuesday, which coincided with the late author's birthday. "Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprises' catalog represents and supports all communities and families."
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 EXCLUSIVE: The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan on Monday is calling on Chairman Jerrold Nadler to hold a hearing to "address the scourge of cancel culture" in the United States, amid what he called a "dangerous trend" of "silencing and censoring certain political speech."
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