Biden news today: President jokes about ‘good old days’ with Obama as he pauses student loan debt for the sixth time

HuffPost He was trying to select Republican members of the Judiciary Committee to give their definitions of women. Ms. Brown Jackson refused to answer that question on the grounds that she was not a biologist – but some GOP members who criticized her for regression had trouble answering the same question.

Here’s a particularly messy answer from Josh Hawley. The full piece is well worth a read…

Deutsche Bank has issued a stark forecast for the immediate future of the US economy, predicting that the country will enter a recession next year. Stocks will be down 20 percent by next summer, the bank says, and unemployment — at a noticeably low level currently — will rise by more than a percentage point in the next two years.

Coming from the bank, these specific forecasts are unlikely to break through the news cycle for ordinary Americans, but voters’ attitude to the economy is hardly as optimistic as things stand.

The Biden administration is ramping up its supply of lethal aid to Ukraine, allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding to the country’s government and military as they resist the Russian onslaught.

Below, State Department spokesman Ned Price announced a new package of “security assistance” directed at a US ally in Eastern Europe.

Teen shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two people at the Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha in 2020, has long complained that Joe Biden has bracketed “white supremacists” in his campaign ad — and is now criticizing the president over the intense investigation into misconduct The alleged money of his son.

Yesterday, the White House announcedFull government effort to prevent, detect and treat Long Covid‘, with plans to include research into the causes and effects of the condition not only on individuals but across populations. Long Covid has affected so many people who were previously able to work that they already have a new disability, meaning they may be entitled to new rights of which they were not aware .

Barack Obama was in awe during his visit to the White House yesterday, including when asked about Democrats’ prospects for what could be a punitive midterm election year. In an unusual Obama-style response, he told the journalist the following:

Joe Biden has nominated a new US Coast Guard chief: Admiral Linda Fagan, who, if confirmed, would become the first woman to head a branch of the US military.

Maria Cantwell, chair of the committee that will hold her hearings, noted that “the nomination of Admiral Fagan will inspire generations of American women to seek service at the highest level in the armed forces.”

Gustav Killander’s story:

independentHolly Baxter took a look at Barack Obama’s appearance at the White House yesterday, writing that he provided at least some welcome emotional warmth in a very negative moment…

At the same time, though, she questions whether the visit can really do much for Democrats as the president struggles around the 40 percent approval mark and his agenda faces persistent obstructions in Congress.

As Kitangi Brown-Jackson’s confirmation approaches, Andrew Feinberg takes a look at the depths raised in hearings by the Judiciary Committee’s Republican Unit and their colleagues on the Senate floor.

He writes that “Republican senators spent most of their speaking time in both areas expressing their grievances regarding the Democrats’ treatment of former candidates going back to the Senate’s rejection of Justice Robert Burke more than three decades ago. They also subjected Jackson, a Harvard Law School graduate who has been confirmed three times by the Supreme Chamber (twice for benches of the court and once for a seat on the U.S. Judgment Committee), to some of the most unusual inquiries ever directed to a candidate for the highest court on earth.”

Read his full summary below.

(None of the stories he tells are in the same category as Marjorie Taylor Greene’s declaration that the three Republican senators vote to confirm Mrs. Brown Jackson.”Pro-pedophilia“.)

After years of tense atmosphere in the White House, the sight of Barack Obama flirting with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris yesterday was a flashback to what appears to be a different era.

Here’s how the former president introduced his former vice president.