The Senate passed a resolution on Wednesday that would nullify President Joe Biden’s changes to long-standing policy to prevent immigrants from coming to the United States if they will become a “public charge,” or a burden on the American taxpayer.
President Joe Biden issued a rare veto on Tuesday against a bipartisan measure that aims to reinstate tariffs on solar products from Southeast Asian countries after U.S. officials found China companies using these nations to get around trade rules.
The Biden administration is reportedly finalizing a proposal that would force fossil fuel-fired power plants to substantially curb emissions or utilize costly carbon capture technology.
A Biden administration rule is set to take effect that will force good-credit home buyers to pay more for their mortgages to subsidize loans to higher-risk borrowers.
Congress moved closer to rebuking President Biden’s action allowing Chinese solar manufacturers to bypass U.S. tariffs, setting up a showdown over a key part of his administration’s climate agenda.
The House Ways and Means Committee green lit a bipartisan resolution that would repeal Biden’s executive action last year suspending tariffs on Chinese solar panels. The move sets up floor vote which is expected to take place early next week and which is likely to garner significant Democratic support.
President Biden’s mandate that about 3.5 million federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.
The White House flatly rejected Wednesday a new report by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that the US was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year.
The Biden administration published a congressionally mandated report highlighting the positive economic benefits the Keystone XL Pipeline would have had if President Biden didn’t revoke its federal permits.
The report, which the Department of Energy (DOE) completed in late December without any public announcement, says the Keystone XL project would have created between 16,149 and 59,000 jobs and would have had a positive economic impact of between $3.4-9.6 billion, citing various studies.
The Biden administration announced on Wednesday, six days before the upcoming midterm elections, that the federal government would help pay power bills for qualifying low- and moderate-income households.