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☆ Audio Clip Emerges of Biden Saying He Told Netanyahu a ‘Come-to-Jesus Meeting’ on Gaza Aid Was Near
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden said on Thursday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were headed toward a “come-to-Jesus meeting” over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, according to an audio clip of the president’s remarks posted on social media on Friday. In recent days, Mr. Biden had expressed hope that at least a six-week cease-fire deal would be in place by Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that starts in a few days. But Israel and Hamas have reached an impasse in negotiations to recover vulnerable hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attack in Israel in exchange for a permanent cease-fire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. On Friday, when asked by reporters if a deal could still be reached by Ramadan, Mr. Biden said, “It’s looking tough.”The president’s earlier “come-to-Jesus” comments were captured on a hot microphone during what Mr. Biden thought was a private exchange with Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, after the State of the Union address. According to a recording of the conversation, Mr. Bennet encouraged the president to “keep pushing” on the issue of humanitarian assistance to Gaza as Israel fights its war against Hamas, a war for which the United States has provided funding and weaponry.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, who has emerged as one of the leading voices for Palestinians in closed-door meetings, pressed for a pause in fighting in Gaza with a member of Israel’s war cabinet, Benny Gantz, at the White House on Monday afternoon, according to the White House. The vice president emphasized the urgency of securing a hostage deal and reducing the humanitarian crisis that has unfolded alongside Israel’s war against Hamas in response to attacks on Oct. 7. She praised Israel’s “constructive approach” to seeking a six-week cease-fire but urged the government to do more to allow desperately needed humanitarian aid to reach those in need in Gaza. “The vice president expressed her deep concern about the humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the recent horrific tragedy around an aid convoy in northern Gaza,” a White House description of the meeting said. It added that “she urged Israel to take additional measures in cooperation with the United States and international partners to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.”The meeting came as the United States said it would continue airdrops of food that began on Saturday in an effort to confront what humanitarian groups say is a crisis for the more than one million displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in southern Gaza, as Israel prepares to deploy ground forces there.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Benny Gantz, Israel’s, “, Harris, Biden’s, ”, Biden Organizations: White Locations: Gaza, ”, Israel, United States, Rafah, Palestinian

☆ Harris Calls for an ‘Immediate Cease-Fire’ in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza, saying that Hamas should agree to the six-week pause currently on the table and that Israel should increase the flow of aid into the besieged enclave amid a humanitarian crisis. Her tone, sharper and more urgent than President Biden’s in recent days, showed the White House’s building frustration with Israel. “People in Gaza are starving,” Ms. Harris said. She also said that Israel must do more to allow for the flow of aid into Gaza, including opening borders, lifting any unnecessary restrictions on aid deliveries and restoring services to Gaza. “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid,” she said.

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Mr. Biden will go to Brownsville, Texas, a city in the Rio Grande Valley that has historically seen large influxes of migrants. He is scheduled to meet with Border Patrol, law enforcement and local officials before giving remarks. Greg Abbott and Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the main union for Border Patrol agents. Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump will arrive at the border at a moment when Americans are citing immigration as one of their top concerns. Mr. Biden, who has taken an increasingly forceful stance on immigration in recent months, is trying to reset the conversation.

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☆ Biden Summons Lawmakers to White House as Shutdown Deadline Looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Erica L. Green | Catie Edmondson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden will try to break through a deadlock on Capitol Hill over keeping the government running and providing aid for Ukraine and Israel as he convenes the top four leaders of Congress at the White House on Tuesday. Lawmakers are running out of time to strike a deal to avert another partial government shutdown. “A basic, basic priority or duty of Congress is to keep the government open,” Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said on Monday. He’ll have those conversations.”Separately, Mr. Biden will ask the leaders to pass critical emergency aid for Ukraine. The administration has spent months pushing for additional funding, arguing that Ukraine is running out of artillery, air defense weaponry and other munitions.

Persons: Biden, Karine Jean, Pierre Organizations: Capitol Hill, White, Defense Department, White House Locations: Ukraine, Israel

☆ Biden to Convene Congressional Leaders as Partial Shutdown Looms
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Erica L. Green | Catie Edmondson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday as lawmakers swiftly run out of time to strike a deal to avert another partial government shutdown. “A basic, basic priority or duty of Congress is to keep the government open,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said. “So, that’s what the president wants to see. He’ll have those conversations.”The spending bill is being held up by demands from hard-right lawmakers in the House, including measures to restrict abortion access, that many members will not support. Ultraconservatives have brought the government to the brink of a shutdown or a partial shutdown three times in the past six months as they try to win more spending cuts and conservative policy conditions written into how federal money is spent.

Persons: Biden, Karine Jean, Pierre, “, Ms, Jean, Pierre said, Ultraconservatives Organizations: White, White House Locations: Ukraine, Israel

☆ U.S. Prepares ‘Major Sanctions’ Against Russia Over Navalny’s Death
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Biden administration is preparing “major sanctions” against Moscow in response to the death of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, a White House official said on Tuesday. John F. Kirby, a National Security Council spokesman, said the sanctions would be announced on Friday. President Biden has said there is “no doubt” that Vladimir V. Putin’s government was behind the death of Mr. Navalny. “Whatever story the Russian government decides to tell the world, it’s clear that President Putin and his government are responsible for Mr. Navalny’s death,” Mr. Kirby told reporters on Tuesday. Mr. Kirby declined to detail what would be included in the sanctions package, but said it would be devised to “hold Russia accountable for what happened to Mr. Navalny and, quite frankly, for all its actions over the course of this vicious and brutal war that has now raged on for two years.”

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Mr. Trump needled Ms. Haley for her performance on social media, calling the result a “bad night” for her. In a Trump campaign email, Steven Cheung, a spokesman, called it “brutal” and contended that the Haley campaign acknowledged it had “intentionally disrespected the people of Nevada” by refusing to campaign there. Ms. Haley cast her party as mired in the same disorder that surrounds the man who has remade it in his image. It does not help that Mr. Trump’s allies have worked behind the scenes to skew primary and delegate rules to his advantage. Nevertheless, onstage in Los Angeles, Ms. Haley told the audience she wasn’t going anywhere.

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☆ Mideast Crisis Biden Criticizes Opposition to Bill That Includes Aid to Israel and Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Some of the dead were killed inside Israel on Oct. 7. At least three hostages were killed by the Israeli military during its ground operations. Only one hostage has been freed by an Israeli military rescue operation. The Israeli military’s assessment did not conclude that any of the dead hostages were killed in Israeli strikes. But some of the hostages freed in November have said that they fear those still in Gaza could be killed in Israeli salvos.

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We don’t have enough judges,” Mr. Biden said on Monday. “Why won’t they give me the help?”A Senate bill introduced over the weekend tries to do just that. But Mr. Biden lifted Title 42 after the pandemic receded, and the legal pathway for using it again would be uncertain without an ongoing public health crisis. Immigration experts said that Mr. Biden probably could have taken some steps without the legislation. Mr. Biden could have done that without the legislation.

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☆ U.S. Strikes 3 Sites in Iraq After Attack on Base
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

One of Israel’s war goals is to create conditions that will persuade Israeli evacuees that it is safe to return home. John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, repeated that objection on Tuesday, when asked at a White House news briefing about Israel’s moves to create a buffer zone. The majority of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged during the war, according to United Nations estimates, and more than 25,000 Gazans have been killed, according to Gazan officials. Israeli ministers have also hinted of plans to create such a buffer zone since the first weeks of the war. “No matter who you are, you will never be able to come close to the Israeli border,” Mr. Dichter said.

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☆ Widening Mideast Crisis U.S. Strikes 3 Sites in Iraq After Attack on Base
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

☆ First Black Women to Cover the White House Are Honored in the Briefing Room
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On her first day covering the White House, Alice Dunnigan had every reason to stand out. She was the first Black woman to be credentialed to join the White House press corps, and she had even arrived an hour early to cover her first news conference with President Harry S. Truman. But as she sat in the lobby of the West Wing, she may as well have been invisible. “I sat there alone and apparently unnoticed, taking in all the activity while glancing now and then at my newspaper,” she wrote in her autobiography, “Alone Atop the Hill.” “If anyone wondered who I was or why I was there, they made no effort to find out.”More than 75 years later, Ms. Dunnigan’s memory is being honored in the same setting where her colleagues once ignored her. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, in November named a new lectern in the White House briefing room for Ms. Dunnigan of The Associated Negro Press and Ethel L. Payne, who joined her on the beat a few years later for The Chicago Defender.

Persons: Alice Dunnigan, Harry S, Truman, ”, Karine Jean, Pierre, Dunnigan, Ethel L, Payne Organizations: White House, Associated Negro Press, The Chicago Locations: ”

☆ Obama shared his vision of America at his first inauguration. Some still believe
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( John Blake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

It went across all visual types.”Elizabeth Alexander recites a poem during President Obama's swearing-in ceremonies at the US Capitol on January 20, 2009. She had grown up in DC, and that inauguration day was a homecoming for her. “I’m sure that some people expected too much,” says Wear, the former Obama campaign worker, of Obama’s vision. The fact of the matter is, that (inauguration) day happened, and millions of people were there. We will have a better idea on another inauguration day — in January of 2025.

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☆ Biden Signs Stopgap Spending Bill, Averting Partial Shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden on Friday signed legislation averting a partial government shutdown, which will fund agencies until early March as Congress continues to wrangle over spending proposals to fund the government for the remainder of the year. The Senate and the House approved the stopgap measure on Thursday; funding was to run out at midnight Friday. The six-week deal was passed over the opposition of hard-right Republicans in the House but with bipartisan majorities in both chambers. It will allow Congress to negotiate and pass bills totaling $1.66 trillion to fund the government through the fall. Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said in a statement on Friday that the new measure “prevents a needless shutdown, maintains current funding levels and includes no extreme policies.”She indicated that the White House was prepared for fights ahead, as the new resolution was the third time since the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1 that Congress had temporarily extended funding.

Persons: Biden, Karine Jean, Pierre Organizations: Republicans, White House, White

☆ Biden Cancels Another $5 Billion in Student Loan Debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden on Friday canceled nearly $5 billion in student loan debt for 74,000 people, the latest effort by the administration to deliver piecemeal relief after the Supreme Court struck down Mr. Biden’s more ambitious loan cancellation plan last year. Most of the people who will benefit from the latest round are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others in public service, who qualify for relief under existing programs that have been plagued by bureaucratic and other problems for years. “My administration is able to deliver relief to these borrowers — and millions more — because of fixes we made to broken student loan programs that were preventing borrowers from getting relief they were entitled to under the law,” Mr. Biden said in a statement. His promise to forgive student loans is a sticking point for crucial voting blocs, particularly young people, and for Black borrowers who disproportionately shoulder the most student loan debt. More than 43 million people across the country owe $1.6 trillion in federal loans for college, according to government data.

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The soaring number of people crossing into the United States from Mexico has been a political vulnerability for President Biden for the past three years, chipping away at his approval rating and opening him up to political attacks. But now, the crisis is threatening to upend America’s support for the war in Ukraine, throwing the centerpiece of Mr. Biden’s foreign policy into jeopardy. After a meeting with Mr. Biden at the White House on Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson insisted that the Republican-led House would not pass legislation to send aid to Ukraine unless Democrats agreed to sweeping new restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border. And even if the two sides do come to some sort of agreement, many Republicans, especially in the House, would be loath to give an election-year win to Mr. Biden on an issue that has given them a powerful line of criticism toward the White House. The issue is also at the center of the candidacy of Mr. Biden’s likely opponent this fall, former President Donald J. Trump.

Persons: Biden, Mike Johnson, Biden’s, Donald J, Trump Organizations: White, Republican, Mr Locations: United States, Mexico, Ukraine, U.S

☆ Harris Warns of ‘Profound Threat’ to America’s Freedoms
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vice President Kamala Harris warned on Monday that American freedom was “under profound threat” in a speech honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in South Carolina, amplifying a message that the Biden administration has made a rallying cry of its re-election bid. Ms. Harris used her keynote address at a South Carolina N.A.A.C.P. She urged the crowd of more than 100 to continue to fight for the constitutional promises Dr. King spent his life holding America accountable for. Ms. Harris criticized “extremists” who have passed laws rolling back voting rights and reproductive rights, orchestrated book bans and denied parts of the nation’s Black history.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Martin Luther King Jr, Biden, Harris, King, ” Organizations: South Carolina N.A.A.C.P, Republican Locations: South Carolina

Henry A. Kissinger, the former secretary of state who died this week, was a go-to adviser for many American presidents over his decades in politics. Here are some thoughts and stories over the years from several of those presidents, expressing awe, exasperation and sharp criticism. President Biden“I’ll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger. I was a young senator, and he was secretary of state — giving a briefing on the state of the world,” the president said in a statement Thursday. Jill and I send our condolences to his wife Nancy, his children Elizabeth and David, his grandchildren, and all those who loved him.”

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☆ Biden Navigates Divisions Over Gaza Inside the White House and Beyond
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Just weeks after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Mr. Biden had invited a small group of prominent Muslim Americans to the White House to discuss Islamophobia in America. They told him that his embrace of Israel after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks was seen by many as permission for Israel’s bombing in Gaza. The private meeting, which had been scheduled for 30 minutes, stretched to more than an hour, attendees said. Mr. Biden waved off aides who tried to pull him out of the room as he listened to the criticism and shared his own experience with loss and grief. “He listened, he did show empathy and he promised to do better, particularly on humanizing Palestinians.”

Persons: Biden’s, Biden, “, ”, Wa’el Alzayat Locations: Israel, America, Gaza, Chicago

☆ U.S. Has Warned Israel to Fight More Surgically in Gaza, Officials Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The United States has warned Israel that it must fight more surgically and avoid further mass displacement of Palestinians in its war against Hamas to avoid a humanitarian crisis that overwhelms the world’s ability to respond, according to senior Biden administration officials. The United Nations has said the fighting has already displaced most of Gaza’s population of 2.2 million. The statements are the Biden administration’s strongest warning to Israeli officials to date about the next phase of their military operation. Gazan health officials say at least 13,000 people were killed during the nearly 50-day Israeli bombardment and ground invasion that followed. The Biden administration officials said the United States was planning to take advantage of the extra time.

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The Israeli prime minister’s office said the released hostages included a 12-year-old boy and multiple members of four other families. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli government, which had offered to extend the pause by one day for every additional 10 hostages released. Under the initial deal, Hamas agreed to release 50 women and children taken hostage during the Oct. 7 attack. In return, Israel agreed to free 150 women and minors held in Israeli jails, among other terms. Before Monday, Hamas had released 39 Israeli hostages under the deal, while Israel had freed 117 Palestinian prisoners.

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☆ The Biden administration is on a mission to crack down on junk fees. Here's who's fighting to keep them.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

President Joe Biden earlier this year said his administration would crack down on hidden fees. WaPo examined federal lobbying files and hundreds of filings that were sent to federal agencies. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementFrom a dizzying array of airline fees to add-ons tacked on to concert ticket prices, Americans are fed up with hidden fees. AdvertisementThe Post analyzed federal lobbying files and filings sent to federal agencies as the administration pushes to save US consumers from collectively spending billions of dollars in fees each year.

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☆ Inside the Desperate Effort to Evacuate Young Cancer Patients From Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Sharon Lafraniere | Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They are some of the most vulnerable in Gaza. Over the past 10 days, 21 children with cancer have been evacuated from Gaza to hospitals in Egypt and Jordan, according to doctors involved in the effort. But at least 30 other young cancer patients have not made it out, and aid workers said that in the chaos of war, they can no longer reach some of the families. Even before the hospital closed, critically ill patients were being sent home through violent streets or transferred to Al-Shifa, a nearby hospital that is under siege by Israeli forces. Hamas and hospital officials have denied the allegations.

Persons: ”, Bakr Organizations: Al, Hospital for Children Locations: Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, Al, Israel

☆ Harris to Announce Steps to Curb Risks of A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Erica L. Green | More About Erica L. Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to announce on Wednesday a slew of additional measures to curb the risks of artificial intelligence as she prepares to take part in a global summit in Britain where world and tech leaders will discuss the future of the technology. On her visit, which will kick off Wednesday with a policy address at the U.S. Embassy in London, Ms. Harris plans to outline guardrails that the American government will seek to put in place to manage the risks of A.I. Taken together, the steps Ms. Harris plans to announce seek to both flesh out a sweeping executive order President Biden signed this week and make its ideals part of broader global standards for a technology that holds great promise and peril. She is also set to announce that 30 other nations have joined a “political declaration” created by the United States that seeks to establish a “set of norms for responsible development, deployment and use of military A.I. capabilities,” as well as $200 million in philanthropic funding to help support the administration’s goals.

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