Finance

Persistent Inflation Threatens Biden’s Agenda

Editorial Bureau October 26, 2021

WASHINGTON — At least once a week, a team of President Biden’s top advisers meet on Zoom to address the nation’s supply chain crisis. They discuss ways to relieve backlogs at America’s ports, ramp up semiconductor production for struggling automakers and swell the ranks of America’s truck

USA

Why McAuliffe Isn’t Mentioning Biden in Virginia Governor Race

Editorial Bureau October 26, 2021

Neither Mr. McAuliffe nor Mr. Youngkin has mentioned Mr. Biden in his ads, according to AdImpact, which tracks campaign commercials, underscoring how little he motivates voters in either party — a striking change after many years in which sitting presidents routinely played starring roles in advertisements by candidates in both parties. In the closing weeks […]

Tech

Russia Challenges Biden Again With Broad Cybersurveillance Operation

Editorial Bureau October 25, 2021

SEA ISLAND, Ga. — Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. government, corporate and think-tank computer networks, Microsoft officials and cybersecurity experts warned on Sunday, only months after President Biden imposed sanctions on Moscow in response to a series of sophisticated spy operations it had conducted around

USA

AP source: Manchin agreeable to wealth tax for Biden plan

Editorial Bureau October 25, 2021

WASHINGTON — Pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden’s scaled-back social services and climate change package. Biden huddled with the conservative West Virginia Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the president’s […]

USA

Biden Meets With Manchin and Schumer as Democrats Race to Finish Social Policy Bill

Editorial Bureau October 25, 2021

Democrats are also increasingly eager to deliver the bipartisan legislation to Mr. Biden’s desk before elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey on Nov. 2, to show voters the party is making good on its promise to deliver sweeping social change. And a number of transportation programs will lapse at the end of the […]

USA

The Pessimistic Electorate Behind Biden’s Approval Ratings

Editorial Bureau October 23, 2021

Mr. Biden’s approval ratings have declined on nearly every issue and among nearly every demographic group in national surveys over the last two months, as the promise of a return to normalcy has given way to rising inflation, a simmering pandemic, gridlock in Washington and chaos on the border and in Afghanistan. The president’s approval […]

USA

Biden Crafts a Climate Plan B: Tax Credits, Regulation and State Action

Editorial Bureau October 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — After losing the centerpiece of his climate agenda just a week before heading to a major global warming summit, President Biden intends to make the case that the United States has a new plan that will still meet its ambitions to cut greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. The administration’s new strategy […]

USA

Biden Said the U.S. Would Protect Taiwan. But It’s Not That Clear-Cut

Editorial Bureau October 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — American presidents have spent decades trying to sidestep the question of how forcefully the United States would come to the aid of Taiwan if China invaded it or, more likely, tried to slowly strangle the island in an effort to force it back under the control of the mainland. The American policy — […]

USA

Harris to discuss drought, climate change at Lake Mead

Editorial Bureau October 18, 2021

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will highlight the problems caused by Western drought as she visits Lake Mead in Nevada and makes the case for the Biden administration’s infrastructure and climate change proposals that have stalled in Congress. Harris will be briefed by Bureau of Reclamation officials about elevation levels at the […]

USA

Biden says he’s open to shortening length of new programs

Editorial Bureau October 16, 2021

HARTFORD, Conn. — President Joe Biden says he would prefer to cut the duration of programs in his big social services and climate change package rather than eliminate some entirely, as Democrats struggle to win support from moderates by trimming what had been a $3.5 trillion proposal. Biden’s comments on Friday, reassuring progressives on what […]