So Babbling Biden holds a big party to celebrate signing something that was signed into law under Obama - like 10 years ago - so HEY! Gay and interracial marriage are PROTECTED!!!

They already were, Joey - and nobody has been threatening them, even though leftists keep saying they're under attack.

This was almost as good as when Biden made lynching illegal - Oh, except that was already illegal.

Better than talking about all the problems you've caused and how your policies have devastated the country on a number of fronts - eh Joe?

 

Biden Invites Drag Queen to White House Who Said, ‘Kids Are Out to Sing and Suck D!’


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PAUL BOIS13 Dec 2022

More has come to light regarding the past of the drag queen whom President Joe Biden invited to the White House for the “Respect for Marriage Act” signing this week, including a past tweet in which he said, “kids are out to sing and suck D!”

As Breitbart News reported on Monday, drag queen activist Marti Cummings celebrated being invited to the White House on Twitter and Instagram

“To be a non binary drag artist invited to the White House is something I never imagined would happen. Thank you President & Dr. Biden for inviting me to this historic bill signing. Grateful doesn’t begin to express the emotions I feel,” Cummings tweeted while sharing a screenshot of the White House invite.

Since Cummings keeps his Twitter account private, his past statements had to be screenshotted by several users, one of which raised more than a few eyebrows.

“The kids are out to sing and suck D!” Cummings said in one tweet.

Another Instagram post featured Cummings posing with a child alongside several scantily-clad drag queens that featured the following caption: “he was so excited & said he wants to perform with us next year.”

https://twitter.com/MiaCathell/stat...ites-drag-queen-white-house-kids-sing-suck-d/

Others pointed out several borderline pornographic videos that featured Cummings, one of which featured him talking about gay sex with as many as 52 men in a year (one per week).

On his website, Marti Gould Cummings bills himself as a “drag artist, television personality, and political figure.”

“Throughout their nearly decade long drag career Marti has been a regular fixture in the nightlife world performing up to 6 regular shows a week,” his website states. “They have sold out concerts at 54 Below, Lincoln Centers Big Apple Circus, Dixon Place and regularly tour the world with Atlantis Cruises.”

“I love doing Drag Story Hour. Despite what conservatives say, this family friend event is a way to spread joy, teach acceptance & love,” he said in his Instagram post. “A way to bring people together. Kids just want to hear their favorite stories…keep spreading hate because I’m gonna keep spreading joy.”

In the wake of the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooting, Cummings spoke at the Stonewall Inn where he hoped for a future when Drag Queen Story Hour would be allowed without fear of protest.

“We are living in unprecedented times and in historic times. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live in unprecedented times or historic times,” he said. “I want to live in times where we can go to a queer space and not have to worry about a gunman showing up to take our lives. I want to live in a time when our kids can go to a library and see drag artists reading stories to them without the threat of the Proud Boys showing up to protest.”

 

A friend of that nuclear scientist fella? That Brinton fella?

 

This is a very smart move. For decades but especially during the Trump years Africa got ignored because you know Black people and "shit hole countries." Which is a huge mistake because two things are happening at once. First China has the US by the balls because they have a monopoly on rare earth which is absolutely essential for making everything from phones to weapons. And at the same time while the US and west tended to ignore Africa China was moving full speed ahead ingratiating themselves on the contentment because Africa has the largest rare earth deposits in the world.

Now the US and the west actually have an inside track with Africa just by tradition and historical support. So its a very smart move to try and use that inside track to cut China off at the rare earth pass.


Biden says U.S. is 'all in' on Africa
Thu, December 15, 2022 at 12:06 AM




STORY: U.S. President Joe Biden tried to jumpstart his nation’s relationship with African countries on Wednesday, after years where the continent was less of a priority and China made inroads with big investments and trade

“The United States is all in on Africa’s future and the work we’ve done over the past two years... Because when Africa succeeds, the United States succeeds. Quite frankly, the whole world succeeds as well.”

His remarks during a three-day summit with African leaders aim to set the U.S. up as a major partner, even as China’s trade with the continent dwarf’s Americas four times over...

On Wednesday Biden listed U.S. firms announcing deals at the summit, including GE and Cisco.

And during a White House dinner, Biden addressed what he called America’s ‘original sin’ - the enslavement of millions – and honored their descendants and the broader African diaspora.

“Our people lie at the heart of the deep and profound connection that forever binds Africa and the United States together... We remember the stolen men and women and children were brought to our shores in chains, subjected to unimaginable cruelty."

Beijing has held its own high-level meetings with African leaders every three years for over two decades.

Whereas this week’s U.S. summit is the first of its kind with African nations since 2014, under President Barack Obama.

As part of it, Biden promised $55 billion dollars for African food security, climate change and more.

He’s also expected to back the African Union’s admission to the G20 during Thursday's summit events.

Biden did not mention China on Wednesday, and U.S. officials have been reluctant to frame the gathering as a battle for influence.

Washington has also dialed back criticism of Beijing's lending practices and big infrastructure projects.

Ahead of the summit, China’s foreign ministry said that its interests in Africa were based on, quote, “sincerity” and that Beijing is opposed to treating the continent as an “arena for great powers to compete with each other”.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-says-u-africa-070638650.html

 

Oh looks like more bad news for president poopy pants biden.....


Democrat Support for Joe Biden 2024 Bid Drops

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HANNAH BLEAU19 Dec 2022
Democrat support for President Joe Biden to run in 2024 is dropping, a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll found.

The survey found Biden remaining stagnant in his overall ratings, which are still underwater. Half, 50 percent, view in unfavorably, while 46 percent maintain a favorable view.

Things get worse for Biden, however, as less than a quarter, 23 percent, want him to run in 2024. Further, he fails to even see majority support from Democrats. According to the survey, the percent of Democrats who want him to run for a second term has fallen, going from 45 percent down to 40 percent.

This coincides with findings of other recent surveys, showing a lack of enthusiasm for a Biden 2024 bid across the board.

A recent Politico survey, for instance, found 65 percent expressing the belief that Biden should not run in 2024. Just 28 percent believe he should, and of those, only 15 percent said he “definitely” should run.

Democrats previously predicted the matter would be settled on the back of November’s mid-terms:

Meanwhile another recent poll from the Economist and YouGov found a stunning lack of enthusiasm among Democrats, specifically. In this survey, only four in ten Democrats — 39 percent, said they would like to see Biden run for president again.

Further, one 13 percent of independents share that view as well.

The USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll was taken December 7-11, 2022, among 1,000 registered voters and has a +/- 3.1 percent margin of error.

The survey follows reports of the Biden family “fully” supporting another presidential bid, per a senior advisor.

“As the President has said, he intends to run for re-election,” the individual told Fox News. “That is something both Dr. Biden and the family fully support.”

Biden — currently the oldest president in history at the age of 80 — would be 82 at the beginning of his second term and, according to reports, has become frustrated by the criticisms of his age.

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/s...ll-democrat-support-for-biden-2024-bid-drops/

“You think I don’t know how f**king old I am?” Biden told an ally, according to Politico’s Jonathan Martin.

Biden has repeatedly contended that his faculties are in check and that he is in good health, despite lingering concerns across the political spectrum.

 

Now if we only had something other than MakeAMeme.com's word for this proof...

 

Getting so mad, aren't you....

Obama didn't sign anything. It was a supreme court ruling...

https://www.obamalibrary.gov/timeline/supreme-court-united-states-rules-same-sex-marriage

I'm sure it would say if he had signed anything.

 

If you have a "Make America Great Again" cap look to see where it was made. Many were made in China.

 

‘Wow! This Is a Blow-Out!’ Fox Reporter Shocked By New GDP Report Showing Higher-Than-Expected Gain
By Tommy ChristopherDec 22nd, 2022, 9:31 am
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rri Willis was shocked by new GDP numbers, exclaiming to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo “Wow! This is a blow-out, Maria!”

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released new GDP numbers on Thursday that showed an upward revision to November’s 3rd quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimate — which was already much higher than expected:


Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the third quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the “third” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP decreased 0.6 percent.

The “third” estimate of GDP released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the “second” estimate issued last month. In the second estimate, the increase in real GDP was 2.9 percent.

On Thursday morning’s edition of Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria, Bartiromo got the news from Willis, who was surprised by the growth but also noted the market reaction in anticipation of further Fed interest rate hikes to cool the economy:

MARIA BARTIROMO: A stronger than expected GDP. Hold on, Michael. I want to get to Gerri Willis right now with the final minute, third quarter GDP. Gerri.

GERRI WILLIS: Wow! This is a blowout out, Maria! 3.2%. That is the third and final revision on third quarter GDP. Not what we expected. We expected a 2.9% gain. 3.2% is going to be a surprise to the markets. You’re seeing the sell-off deepening here because all of this feeds into what the Federal Reserve does. We’re going to expect to see more rate hikes on this higher than anticipated number. GDP, of course, the broadest measure of the nation’s output. It’s how much the economy is growing. Keep in mind, it’s very rearview mirror. This is third quarter. It’s not right now. So for that reason, you need to keep it in perspective. We’re also looking at initial claims that coming in at 216,000 below expectations of 222,000 and continuing claims 1.672. Maria?

MARIA BARTIROMO: Yeah, Gerri, the market worsened right as the number was coming out. It is down 123.

Watch above via Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/wow-t...gdp-report-showing-higher-than-expected-gain/

 

I confess I have not done my own deep dive into this and God only knows what horse trading had to go on to get it across the finish line. And I am sure there is plenty for us progressive/liberal/Democrats to be pissed off about. And treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans will have the same experience.

But it is another testament to President Biden's skill and ability. First because it is actually government working. But even bigger showing what President Biden can accomplish with the slimiest of majorities. The treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in the House desperately wanted to take this hostage and shut down the government again. And President Biden, the Democrats, and a handful of sane Republican n Senators took that away from them.



House passes $1.7T spending bill, sending measure to Biden, averting shutdown

The must-pass measure passed easily despite most Republicans voting against.

ByIsabella Murray and Lauren Peller
December 23, 2022, 12:13 PM



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The House on Friday passed a sweeping $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the government from running out of money at midnight and send an additional $45 billion to Ukraine.

The measure now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature.

The bill passed 225-201 with nine Republicans -- Reps. John Katko of New York, Chris Jacobs of New York, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Fred Upton of Michigan, Rodney Davis of Illinois, Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington and Steve Womack of Arkansas -- supporting the bill. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York voted 'no' and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., voted 'present.'

"This bill is a critically important piece of legislation not only to keep our government funded, keep our people being served but also to show that the United States of America's government works," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said ahead of the vote.

"I ask all my colleagues to join me in voting 'yes,' showing the world that we will never remain idle in the face of those who believe they can terrorize civilians, devour our territory and commit more crimes with impunity," he said, countering skepticism some Republicans have voiced about continued high-levels of funding to support Ukraine.

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President Biden, who said in a statement just after passage that he'd sign the bill into law "as soon as it reaches my desk," applauded its bipartisan support.

"This bill is further proof that Republicans and Democrats can come together to deliver for the American people, and I’m looking forward to continued bipartisan progress in the year ahead," he said.

Biden signed a short-term funding bill into law later on Friday, officially averting a government shutdown ahead of the midnight deadline and giving legislators on Capitol Hill enough time to get the spending bill processed and ready for his signature sometime in the coming days.


Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi arrives for her final weekly press briefing in the US Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 22, 2022.
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House Republican leaders had told GOP members to vote against the bill.

As the last bill Democrats will pass while controlling the House before the GOP takes control of the House on Jan. 3, it was considered in a mostly empty chamber -- over half of House members filed proxy letters -- allowing them to vote remotely -- after making it home ahead of treacherous winter storms set to disrupt travel before the holidays.


Some House Republicans, including current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy R-Calif., had called for punting the issue to the new Congress.

"This is a monstrosity that is one of the most shameful acts I've seen in this body. The appropriations process failed the American public, and there's no greater example of the nail in the coffin of the greatest failure of a one-party rule," McCarthy said in a nearly 25-minute floor speech Friday, telling the body he would be a 'no' vote.

He said the omnibus spends "too much, increasing the deficit and fueling more inflation," adding, "Why is the majority of Democrats not even here if it's so good?"

As he finished, he said, "In eleven days this all changes. We are going to reclaim this body's integrity and service to the American people. After this institution covers itself in disgrace, disgrace one last time under Democrat one-party rule. A new direction is coming. In eleven days, Republicans will deliver."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in her final floor speech, called out McCarthy for his remarks.

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"It was sad to hear the Minority Leader earlier say that this legislation is the most shameful thing to be seen on the House floor in this Congress," she said. "I can't help but wonder -- has he forgotten about January 6?"

Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday she was hopeful the bill could pass that night, before lawmaker absences due to weather and the Christmas holiday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had announced earlier on Thursday an accelerated process for passing the spending bill.

The House vote was pushed back to early on Friday, according to Hoyer, in order for members to get a chance to dissect the wide-ranging package. Still, McCarthy said on the House floor on Friday, members had little time to read the bill.

The vote came after the Senate struck a last-hour deal on Thursday to pass a version of the sprawling spending package, speeding through votes on 17 amendments that included both victories and compromises from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

MORE: Senate passes $1.7T spending bill, including Ukraine aid, getting one step closer to averting shutdown
It also came two days behind Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's historic appeal to a joint meeting of Congress, imploring lawmakers for the $45 billion in military, humanitarian and security money he claimed wasn't "charity" but a contribution to the success of democracy abroad.

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The bill keeps doors open for federal agencies through Sept. 30, 2023, and is set to head to President Joe Biden's desk upon its expected passage despite some anticipated repudiation from a handful of GOP House members.

"Over two thirds and the United States Senate stood and said it is time to do our duty. And they did not because each and every one of those senators thought that this bill was perfect, it is not," Hoyer said.


House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer center arrives at Statuary Hall for Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi's unveiling ceremony in Washington, D.C.
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MORE: $45 billion in Ukraine aid included in must-pass $1.7 trillion government funding bill
The legislation includes an increase in defense spending and military and civilian federal employee pay, disaster relief, medical services for military veterans, a ban of the use of TikTok on government-issued devices and reforms to the Electoral Count Act to avoid a repeat of Jan. 6 and attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Senate passage of the bill did not include all requests from White House officials, such as additional COVID funding and an expanded Child Tax Credit.


House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy walks to the chamber for final votes as the House wraps up its work for the week, at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 2, 2022.
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It also did not include an amendment from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, that would have kept in place Title 42, a pandemic-era policy which allows the expulsion of migrants on public health grounds that expired this week despite legal challenges waged by Republicans against its rollback. Another Title 42 amendment, introduced by Sen. Krysten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., also failed.

Still, Biden praised the legislation in his statement on Friday, highlighting it's advancement of cancer and other disease research through his ARPA-H initiative, investment in community policing and further funding the Violence Against Women Act, among other tenants of the bill, like relief aid, Ukraine funding and veteran health care expansion.

"The bipartisan funding bill advances key priorities for our country and caps off a year of historic bipartisan progress for the American people," he said. "I want to thank Senator Leahy, Senator Shelby, and Chairwoman DeLauro for their tireless work to get this done. Neither side got everything it wanted in this agreement – that’s what happens in a negotiation."

Several additional amendments did pass, including two that expand pregnancy and breastfeeding accommodations and security in the workplace as well as a measure known as the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act that funds a shortfall in the 9/11 first responder fund called the World Trade Center Healthcare Program. The amendment funds the program for another five years and authorizes $2.7 billion in compensation payments to the families of 9/11 victims, the Beirut Marine barracks bombing and other acts of terrorism.



https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hou...-bill-sending-measure-biden/story?id=95747819

 

One thing we have to give credit to biden for.
He can put together a pig bill his cronies will vote for after midterms.
Fuck the economy, fuck our border security and fuck the debt, but the man can give it away faster than any deplorable.

 

This is going to be fun. All President Biden needs to do is follow Trump's precedence, refuse to hand over anything, ignore all subpoenas, and declare executive privilege going clear back to his first campaign. Or maybe even one up Trump and declare executive privilege going back to the day Hunter was born. You know just like that Karma thing treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans kept threatening progressive/liberal/Democrats with when they said they saw a red wave coming. What goes around comes around.


White House to Jim Jordan, James Comer: Sorry, but you have to restart your oversight requests

Heidi Przybyla
Thu, December 29, 2022 at 3:00 AM MST


The Biden White House launched its first major broadside in response to incoming House Republicans likely to spearhead aggressive oversight of the administration.

A top lawyer for the president pledged in letters to those members that the administration would operate in good faith with them. But he also said that oversight demands made by congressional Republicans during the last Congress would have to be started over.

In respective letters to Reps. James Comer (R-Ky) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.

“Congress has not delegated such [oversight] authority to individual members of Congress who are not committee chairmen, and the House has not done so under its current Rules,” wrote Sauber, one of the White House’s top oversight lawyers.

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Sauber did not rule out satisfying the requests once the next Congress is sworn in. But his letter nevertheless represents the first volley in what is likely to be a contentious and potentially litigious two years between House Republicans and the Biden White House. More narrowly, it is an apparent effort to shield the administration from a hail of potential subpoenas in early January by describing them as an abuse of the normal process of congressional oversight.

In a Nov. 18, 2022, letter to White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Jordan had warned that if his requests for documents from the administration remained outstanding at the beginning of the 118th Congress, “the Committee may be forced to resort to compulsory process to obtain the material we require.”

White House officials, who briefed POLITICO, point to long-standing practice, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s administration, that ranking members in the minority do not jump-start the accommodations process on formal investigative requests. Sauber’s letter tells Jordan and Comer they should not expect records requests to be satisfied before they take their committee’s respective gavels.

Congressional oversight is a normal function of Congress. Yet with the razor-thin margin in the House and little expectation of major legislative breakthroughs with Democrats in control of the Senate and White House, investigations of the Biden administration are expected to be a top priority for Republicans.

Among the issues that Jordan and Comer have pledged to investigate are the federal government’s use of criminal and counterterrorism resources with respect to school board meetings, the drawdown of troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, and the business dealings of the president’s son Hunter Biden. They have pinpointed 42 administration officials who they want to testify before Congress.

Comer, in a Dec. 6 letter questioning the administration’s troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, demanded that the White House provide responsive material “no later than December 20, 2022.” In joint Dec. 13 letters to several administration officials relating to the origins of Covid-19, Jordan and Comer demand materials by no later than December 27, 2022.

The likely ascension of Jordan, one of the harder-lined conservatives in his party, to the chair of the Judiciary Committee could, in particular, set off major political fireworks. He’s viewed within the party as one of its most effective political bulldogs. But he has also taken stances to diminish the reach and scope of congressional oversight. Jordan has refused to comply with a congressional subpoena related to his conversations with the Trump White House around the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he spearheaded a 2019 letter to oversight Democrats lambasting “partisan” subpoenas issued as part of the first impeachment of President Donald Trump. His charge that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents “terrorists” for attending school board meetings has been revealed as false.

The Biden White House had largely stayed quiet about House Republicans’ oversight efforts, save when pressed by them during congressional hearings. But that changed after the election. In a statement, a spokesperson for the White House counsel’s office, Ian Sams, likened the subpoena threats to “political stunts,” suggesting House Republicans “might be spending more time thinking about how to get booked on Hannity than on preparing to work together to help the American people.”

Sauber’s letter tries to forge a middle path, albeit one that restarts the clock on the era of GOP oversight.

“Should the Committee issue similar or other requests in the 118th Congress,” Sauber writes, “we will review and respond to them in good faith, consistent with the needs and obligations of both branches. We expect the new Congress will undertake its oversight responsibilities in the same spirit of good faith.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-jim-jordan-james-100000609.html

 

This looks like great bipartisanship. And a great photo op for President Biden. But I am sure his smile will be smirking "vote no but take the dough" eh Moscow Mitch?

Biden heads to Kentucky to highlight cash for aging bridge

FILE - President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off Marine One, Jan. 2, 2023, in Washington. Biden will visit a notoriously dilapidated bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky on Wednesday to promote his administration's infrastructure law. The Brent Spence Bridge has long been a symbol of the nation's aging infrastructure system, with presidents of both parties vowing to fix it. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
SEUNG MIN KIM
Wed, January 4, 2023 at 3:15 AM MST


WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's visit to a notoriously dilapidated bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky is a chance for him to showcase accomplishments and talk up the virtues of bipartisanship while rubbing shoulders with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

The trip on Wednesday is also about cold, hard cash.

“It’s a giant bridge, man,” Biden said this week when asked about his planned trip to the Brent Spence Bridge. “It’s a lot of money. It’s important.”

Indeed, the nearly $1 trillion that Biden's administration is doling out for roads and bridges, broadband networks and water projects across America will be critical not just for the communities getting the help but to the Democratic president’s political theory that voters are hungry for bipartisanship that delivers tangible results.

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As the prospects for massive, transformational legislating diminish rapidly this year in a divided Washington, the White House and top Cabinet officials aim to focus instead on selling Biden’s recent achievements and demonstrating how the new laws directly affect Americans.

That new effort kicks off as Biden stops in northern Kentucky at the perennially congested bridge spanning the Ohio River that has frustrated motorists for decades. The infrastructure law enacted in late 2021 will offer more than $1.63 billion in federal grants to Ohio and Kentucky to build a companion bridge that will help unclog traffic on the Brent Spence.

Other top administration officials are holding similar events Wednesday and Thursday at other major bridges in the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is stopping by the collection of bridges crossing the Calumet River in Chicago; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was appearing at the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London, Connecticut; and White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu was to be at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

All the bridges will get new funding under the infrastructure law, which is one of Biden’s marquee bipartisan accomplishments.

The Brent Spence, which connects Cincinnati and northern Kentucky, was declared functionally obsolete by the Federal Highway Administration in the 1990s. It has become an outsized symbol of the nation's crumbling infrastructure, with successive presidents from both parties singling out the aging span as they stumped for better roads and bridges.

In 2011, President Barack Obama name-checked McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner, who represented the Cincinnati suburbs, as he stood near the Brent Spence and pushed the two Republican leaders to support a jobs package that would fix similarly ailing bridges. Six years later, President Donald Trump told a local Fox station that “I’ve already heard about the bridge. I love the area."

“We’re going to get it fixed," Trump said about the Brent Spence, which he called “dangerous.”

As for Biden, he said during a 2021 CNN town hall in Cincinnati that his administration would “fix that damn bridge of yours." The span was designed for 80,000 vehicles a day but was easily doubling that on its narrow lanes.

On Wednesday, Biden can begin to make good on that promise.

The president will be accompanied at Brent Spence by McConnell, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, former Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican. Officials hope much of the work on the new project will be completed by 2029.

The White House also invited Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and newly sworn in J.D. Vance of Ohio, according to a White House official, but neither planned to appear with Biden in northern Kentucky.

McConnell, who was already home in Kentucky, will not fly with Biden on Air Force One but will greet him on the tarmac at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, according to a person who was not authorized to speak about the minority leader's travel plans publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Biden dismissed any notion that the trip to northern Kentucky was about highlighting his longstanding relationship with McConnell, who has been both an ally and a foil during the president’s first two years in office. McConnell was one of 19 Senate Republicans to support the infrastructure law and has said repairing the Brent Spence has long been a priority.

“This is a bridge that has been a major national issue for 25 years, my top transportation project for decades. And it’s going to be fully funded by the infrastructure bill, which I supported," McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “It's important for me to be there.”



https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-heads-kentucky-highlight-cash-101536622.html

 

And the pork vote buying continues.

 

US will begin expelling Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans who cross border illegally, White House says

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Andrew Feinberg
Thu, January 5, 2023 at 9:42 AM MST·3 min read


The Biden administration will begin expelling migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who cross into the US illegally between ports of entry as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration while opening a number of legal pathways for people to legally claim asylum, the White House said on Thursday.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce the new policies in a speech at the White House at 11.15 am, just one day after he said he intends to make his first visit to the US-Mexico border next week when he visits Mexico for a trilateral summit with the Mexican and Canadian heads of government.

A senior administration official who briefed reporters on the plan said the Department of Homeland Security is implementing the new policies as part of a strategy to prepare for the end of a Trump-era public health order which has allowed the US to expel a significant number of migrants, ostensibly to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

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“Today we are announcing some significant steps that we are taking to not only increase legal pathways to the United States, but also continue to deliver consequences for those who attempt to enter the United States unlawfully. The legal pathways that we are announcing today are generous, but at the same time, there are serious consequences for circumventing them,” said the official, who told reporters Mr Biden will announce the expansion of a program that has been used for migrants seeking to come to the US from Venezuela to Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants.

“Under the expanded program, DHS will admit up to 30,000 individuals per month from these four countries. At the same time we will return to Mexico 30,000 people each month from these countries who circumvent the process and attempt to cross our border unlawfully,” the official continued, adding that the US will immediately begin to “swiftly return” migrants from those countries who attempt to cross the US-Mexico border illegally and deem any such migrants ineligible for the new program.

Anyone who crosses from those countries illegally into Panama or Mexico will also be ineligible, the official said.

“The message is clear: Those who are interested in migrating to the United States should stay where they are and apply for this rapid new process,” the official said.

To be eligible for the new process, any potential asylum seeker will need a US sponsor and will have to pass a security vetting process. Anyone approved can travel to the US by plane and will have a two-year residence and work permit upon arrival.

“The process is easy. You can do the whole thing on an app on your phone. It costs nothing more than the price of a commercial airline ticket,” they said.

The administration’s latest push to stem the flow of asylum seekers across the US-Mexico border comes amid a record number of crossings and attempted crossings that has contributed to what critics describe as a crisis that has overwhelmed border communities and consumed significant amounts of resources on both sides of the border.

The official said the new programme is based off a similar arrangement launched for Venezuelan migrants last year, which the administration has considered successful because it resulted in a 90 per cent decrease in the number of Venezuelan nationals seeking asylum between ports of entry.

“Coupling consistent consequences for those who cross our border with a streamlined legal pathway is proven is proven to reduce irregular migration and facilitate safe, orderly migration,” the official said. “Fewer people are risking their lives and their entire life savings at the hands of human smugglers. This is what we are seeking to build upon today”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-begin-expelling-cubans-haitians-164200418.html

 

A "crackdown on ILLEGAL migrants".

Betcha.
Instead of just letting them walk 3,000 miles and cross ILLEGALLY now the administration wants to give them visas and work permits and have them fly here.

Open borders with a new name and new expense.

They really do think we're that stupid.

 

There are two things that get changed very often around here. Soiled underwear and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican stories.