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But today, Democrats are cautiously optimistic about their chances to defy those early predictions and deny Republicans the big gains once seen as inevitable. Roadblocks in Congress led to increasingly vocal frustration among rank-and-file Democrats that the president wasn’t delivering on the promises of his campaign. There was a view inside the White House six weeks ago that the summer could produce the kind of good news that now has materialized. The question is whether Biden and his White House team can maintain the discipline to keep driving these points throughout what still promises to be a rough fall election season. There was news beyond Congress that the White House also viewed as favorable.

While in office, Donald Trump would ask officials if he could keep documents, his former Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told CNN's Erin Burnett

“When you get to top secret, that stuff doesn’t lie around in the White House ... much less in the basement of Mar-a-Lago," said the Post's Eugene Robinson.

A new analysis from the Penn Wharton Budget Model finds that wealthier taxpayers will bear the brunt of the impact.

The House used a party-line 220-207 vote to pass the legislation.

Called the Inflation Reduction Act, the bill passed the House in a 220 to 207 party-line vote, days after it cleared the Senate in 51 to 50.

A massive sinkhole measuring more than 100 feet across has opened on mining land in Chile, according to the government's geology mining service.

With inflation raging near its highest level in four decades, Congress is poised to approve President Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act.

Trump baselessly said Obama "kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified," suggesting that "lots" of them "pertained to nuclear."

The GOP opposes the bill, but the same was true Sunday when Dems used Vice President Harris' tie-breaking vote to power it through the 50-50 Senate.

Joseph V. Cuffari and his staff have refused to release documents and hindered interviews in an effort to block and delay a probe into his actions, sources say.

The Inflation Reduction Act is a big win for the White House and the party, something that Democrats can talk about. "It gives you something to run on," says one Democratic strategist.

The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change.

Democrats have pushed their landmark climate and health care bill through Congress, handing an election-year victory to President Joe Biden.

A flagship Democratic economic bill perched on the edge of House passage Friday, placing President Joe Biden on the brink of a back-from-the-dead triumph on his climate, health and tax goals that could energize his party ahead of November’s elections. Democrats were poised to muscle the measure through the narrowly divided House Friday over solid Republican opposition. The package is but a shadow of Biden's initial vision and was produced only after a year of often bitter infighting between party leaders, progressives and centrists led by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., empowered by that chamber's even split.

Ryann McEnany, ex-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany's sister, said in a video it's for "people who see the world our way: the right way."

"Are you better off than you were four indictments ago?" one person suggested.

White House officials are zeroing in on canceling $10,000 for all borrowers who earn less than $150,000 per year, CNBC reports.

The Inflation Reduction Act is not expected to bring down inflation dramatically or right away, but experts say that might not be such a bad thing given the bill's other areas of focus.

The historians warned President Joe Biden about the rise of totalitarianism around the world, sources told The Washington Post.

When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before WWII.

President Joe Biden has arrived in South Carolina to begin what's expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family.

The first couple was planning to be in Kiawah Island, noted for its private beach and golf resort, through Tuesday, according to Federal Aviation Administration advisories. The White House did not respond to requests to provide details on Biden's vacation schedule, activities or when he planned to return to Washington. Biden, accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, departed the White House by motorcade to Joint Base Andrews outside the capital, where Air Force One was on hand to take them to Joint Base Charleston.

The responses from Trump, GOP lawmakers and Fox News have been remarkably consistent. Here are the main arguments.

"I don't want them. It doesn't look good for me," Trump said of including wounded veterans in a military parade, according to an upcoming book.

Did he really mean to say this out loud?

"If there's a grift to be grifted, he's gonna grift it," Charles Leerhsen told Newsweek. "He has this very basic sense that he might be able to pawn it off on someone."

The U.S. has renewed credibility on global climate issues and will be able to inspire other nations in their own efforts, experts say, after the Democrats pushed their big economic bill through the Senate on Sunday.

The FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home as part of an investigation into whether he improperly took documents from the White House was celebrated by some as proof that no one is above the law and denounced by others as a political attack. Little is known about the aims of Department of Justice investigators and what evidence they may have gathered. There are laws governing how presidents are supposed to handle documents that, at least theoretically, can trigger prosecuti

The Evans family says racism prompted officials at a suburban Kansas City water park to cancel a private pool party for their 17-year-old son's birthday on Saturday. Summit Waves Aquatic Facility reportedly canceled the reservation once several of the family members arrived, and didn't give a reason.

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Trump and Pence have backed different candidates in the Wisconsin Republican primary for governor.

The House Jan. 6 committee has accused Perry of seeking a pardon from Trump, which Perry denied.

A federal search warrant like the kind carried out at the home of former President Donald Trump would require detailed evidence and sign-off at the highest levels of the DOJ, legal experts said.

Whether an FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence is a prelude to criminal charges is unknown — especially unclear since other investigations into mishandling of classified information have ended without prosecution or in misdemeanor plea deals.

"No one at the White House was given a heads-up," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

U.S. health officials have authorized a plan to stretch the nation’s limited supply of monkeypox vaccine by giving people just one-fifth the usual dose.

The legislation sets aside $52 billion specifically to bolster the U.S. computer chip sector.

The gate to former President Donald Trump's home at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 8, 2022. Photo by Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty ImagesThe FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Aug. 8, 2022, has sparked a vigorous outcry from Trump and his allies. The details of the search are not clear, but reporting by The New York Times confirms that the search was “at least in part” for presidential records that Trump had taken from the White House and which were

Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo shares his concerns with how Biden is targeting average Americans with a beefed-up IRS

This was supposed to be a week where President Biden celebrated a series of legislative victories. But it was overtaken by news that FBI agents had searched the home of former President Donald Trump.

Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Tuesday said the FBI’s raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property could be the key to him winning the 2024 presidential election. Griffin, in an appearance on CNN’s “New Day,” said she hoped the investigation is about more than Trump not complying with certain archiving laws…

The White House said that multiple companies, "spurred" by the Biden-backed chips bill, have announced more than $44 billion in new semiconductor investments.

Trump wanted a sycophant as chief of staff, an impulse all occupants of the Oval Office should resist.

A coalition of tenant unions, community organizations and legal groups are calling on the Biden administration to launch a full-government response to lower rent inflation.

The latest results from the Wisconsin primary ahead of the 2022 midterms.

President Joe Biden’s legislative victories have aimed to position the U.S. to “win the economic competition of the 21st century,” but his investments to boost the nation’s technology, infrastructure and climate resilience over the next decade are set against a 90-odd-day clock until the midterms.

The nearly 12 months since the chaotic end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan haven’t been easy for Joe Biden.

President Joe Biden is set to sign into law a bill that aims to help military veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

The White House officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency in the United States last week. More than 7,500 cases of the virus have been confirmed since it began spreading across the country in May. Today's show: Health reporter Pien Huang on how the outbreak began, how it gathered steam and whether monkeypox is on track to become an endemic disease in the United States.Check out more of NPR's reporting on monkeypox:- Monkeypox: The myths, misconceptions — and facts — about how you catch it- He discovered the origin of the monkeypox outbreak — and tried to warn the world- How we talk about monkeypox matters. Experts offer ways to reduce stigma

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) promised on Monday that if Republicans take back the House after November’s midterm elections, he will have them investigate the Department of Justice, singling out Attorney General Merrick Garland to “clear your calendar.” “I’ve seen enough. The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” McCarthy…

As Biden celebrates a historic climate-drugs bill, the latest in a series of wins, one key decision stands out--stepping back and relying on Schumer.

A new book describes complaints by then-President Donald Trump about American military leaders, and his aversion to having injured soldiers in a parade.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman released a pair of photos to corroborate reporting in her forthcoming book that White House staffers regularly found ripped-up printed paper clogging a toilet in the presidential residence during former President Trump’s administration. The photos, shared with Axios on Monday, reportedly show small pieces of paper in a toilet in the White…

The 2020 election conspiracy theorist added that those criminally charged "for things they shouldn't have done" during the Capitol attack are being unfairly treated.

The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and a member of the Pfizer board, that aired Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

The president was cleared from an isolation that lasted longer than expected because of a rebound case of the virus.

Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Joe Biden has left the White House for the first time since becoming infected last month.

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens.

Democrats pushed the legislation through the evenly divided chamber, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie and overcoming unanimous Republican opposition.

United Democrats pushed the 755-page measure through the Senate on a party-line vote.

President Joe Biden's doctor says the 79-year-old president has tested negative for COVID-19 but will continue to isolate at the White House until a second negative test.

President Joe Biden has still tested positive for COVID-19 as of Friday, in what appeared to be a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug according to the White House.

A husband and wife from Wisconsin celebrating more than five decades of marriage were killed in a lightning strike outside the White House.

In a surprise victory for Republicans, the Senate on Thursday voted to overturn a Biden administration rule requiring rigorous environmental review of major infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — a victory enabled in part by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

The U.S. has declared a public health emergency to bolster the federal response to the outbreak of monkeypox that already has infected more than 7,100 Americans.

A federal grand jury investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed the White House counsel under then-President Donald Trump and his top deputy.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin are making the case for overhauling the 1800s-era Electoral Count Act.

Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski has been killed in a car accident in her northern Indiana District.

President Joe Biden’s “loose cough” has returned as he faces a rebound case of COVID-19, his doctor said Tuesday, though he “continues to feel well.”.

President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak.

It’s back to the White House balcony and the Treaty Room for President Joe Biden as he contends with a “rebound” case of COVID-19.

President Joe Biden will soon be signing into law a major bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second straight day, in what appears to be a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation.

One month into his presidency, Joe Biden made clear his distaste for even naming the man he'd ousted from the Oval Office.

The House has approved wide-ranging legislation aimed at helping communities in the West cope with increasingly severe wildfires and drought — fueled by climate change — that have caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and businesses in recent years.

Attorney General Merrick Garland headlined a White House event bringing together pro bono lawyers, bar associations and public interest groups to discuss how best to offer legal services and protections for women seeking abortions.

U.S. regulators say they are no longer considering authorizing second COVID-19 booster shots for all adults under 50 this summer.

President Joe Biden and his administration are going all out to play down a sobering new economic report.

President Joe Biden’s administration is launching a renewed push for COVID-19 booster shots for those eligible, pointing to the enhanced protections they offer against severe illness as the highly-transmissible BA.

The House has passed a $280 billion package to boost the semiconductor industry and scientific research in a bid to create more high-tech jobs in the United States and help it better compete with international rivals, namely China.

Barack Obama’s presidential portrait will be unveiled at the White House in a September ceremony hosted by his former No. 2, President Joe Biden.

Asian shares are mostly higher following a broad rally on Wall Street, but Hong Kong's benchmark sank more than 2%.

When General Motors went through the biggest industrial bankruptcy proceedings in history, 20,000 retirees from GM's Delphi Corp. subsidiary saw their retirement savings slashed.

In a startling turnabout, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin have reached an expansive agreement that had eluded them for months on health care, energy and climate issues, taxes on higher earners and corporations and trimming the federal debt.

The Congressional Budget Office says the end of pandemic-era spending, fast economic growth and higher tax revenues have caused the federal debt this year to be lower than forecast.

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, according to a U.S. official.

South Korea’s SK Group plans to invest $22 billion in the United States on industries including semiconductors, green energy and bioscience.

As companies like Samsung and Texas Instruments expand their operations in the state, Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders are backing federal efforts to grow the industry.

The Senate has advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and accelerate high-tech research.

President Joe Biden has improved enough from his coronavirus infection that he's able to resume his regular exercise routine,.

President Joe Biden wants to convince a skeptical public that the U.S. is not, in fact, heading into a recession.

An increasing number of Republican officials are defending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her reported trip to Taiwan.

President Joe Biden is decrying his predecessor for failing to try and stop the deadly Jan_ 6 mob attack on the Capitol, saying “Donald Trump lacked the courage to act.”.

Calling semiconductors “the building blocks for the modern economy,” President Joe Biden is asking Congress to move quickly and send him a bipartisan bill designed to boost the computer chips industry and high-tech research in the United States.

An original script for Donald Trump’s speech the day after the Capitol insurrection included lines ordering the Justice Department to “ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law’ and stating the rioters “do not represent me."

President Joe Biden likely has contracted a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly through the United States, and now has body aches and a sore throat since his positive test.

Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 committee has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump.