On Sunday, Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) upheld her misleading claim that pinned the blame on President Joe Biden’s border policies for a harrowing anecdote about a survivor of sex trafficking. During her State of the Union rebuttal, Britt appeared to inaccurately tie Biden’s administration with a woman who was sex trafficked at a young age. … Read more
WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden’s fourth and possibly last speech to a joint session of Congress on Thursday night was the feistiest and most direct of his presidency, telling Americans he has delivered on many of his promises while warning them of the threat that predecessor and potential successor Donald Trump poses to democracy itself. … Read more
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A story about a sex trafficking victim shared by Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) in her bizarre State of the Union rebuttal is coming under fire for the dishonest way it was used to attack President Joe Biden’s border policies. In a seven-minute TikTok video, former Associated Press reporter Jonathan Katz explained how his lingering questions … Read more
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Wasting no time building momentum from his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden on Friday announced a $30 million ad blitz over the next six weeks in seven key battleground states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. On Saturday, the president’s reelection campaign unveiled the first ad to be aired … Read more
President Joe Biden, briefly responding from the podium to jeering from Republicans during his State of the Union speech called a migrant “an illegal,” prompting criticism from his party’s progressive wing. “No human being is illegal,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) in a social media post soon afterward. In the section of his speech Thursday … Read more
In a sharp and combative speech, President Joe Biden used his annual State of the Union address to Congress to effectively kick-start the general election and go on the attack against his presumptive opponent, former President Donald Trump. Biden threw intense partisan elbows at Republicans throughout his speech, sparring with GOP lawmakers from the podium … Read more
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Speeches before joint sessions of Congress tend to be forgettable. Even ones that make an impression rarely have long-term effects on politics or policy. But there are exceptions. And as I listened to President Joe Biden give this year’s State of the … Read more
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden did what he had to do in his State of the Union address on Thursday night. And then, it was party time. Just seconds after stepping down from the dais in the House chamber, as most news networks pulled their cameras away, Biden was playfully saluting people in the audience … Read more
