Search Results for: BID

Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. “Let’s make every day count,” President Joe Biden said in an address to the nationin November after Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat to Trump in the presidential race. Trump has pledged to rescind unspent funds in Biden’s landmark climate and health care law and stop clean-energy development projects. “There’s only one administration at a time,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters...

President Joe Biden said on December 8 that the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad was an overdue and “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but it was also “a moment of risk and uncertainty” for the Middle East. President Biden spoke at the White House hours after after rebel groups completed a takeover of the country following more than a dozen years of violent civil war and decades of leadership by Assad and his family. President Biden said the United States was monitoring reports of the whereabouts of Assad, with Russian state media...

Jill Biden once said that she knew marrying Joe Biden, then a senator from Delaware, would mean “a life in the spotlight that I had never wanted.” On August 19 night, now very accustomed to that spotlight, the first lady stood before the Democratic National Convention to do her part to highlight her husband’s 50 years of public service as his presidency begins to draw to a close. Her words marked the beginning of an end for her, too. Before the president walked across the stage at the United Center to deliver the keynote speech on the convention’s opening...

The Democratic National Convention kicks off on August 19, with delegates and officials descending on Chicago after a wild few weeks that saw the party switch out its nominee, upending what had already been an unprecedented campaign year. With the departure of President Joe Biden from the campaign, and Vice President Kamala Harris’ swift ascension to the top of the ticket, Democrats have essentially rejiggered the general election fight against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, just months before the November 5 election. The campaign redesign has also required changes in the platform that party officials will adopt...