Barack Obama Returns to White House to Celebrate ACA
Howdy, live blog Readers. Happy Tuesday.
Former president Barack Obama will today return to the White House for the first time since leaving it in January 2017, to celebrate the anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Acthis signature legislative achievement.
Obama will deliver remarks alongside Joe Bidenwho was his vice-president at the time and whom Obama has long credited as being Instrumental in getting the legislation passed.
“Joe Biden,” Obama said in a White House video released last year, “we did this together. We always talked about how if we could get the principle of universal coverage established, we could then build on it. ”
Vice-President Kamala Harris will also deliver remarks at the event this afternoon, where Biden is expected to announce “additional action to further strengthen the ACA and save families hundreds of dollars a month on their healthcare”.
With Biden struggling in the polls in a midterm elections year – when parties which hold the White House often take a shellacking (ask Obama) – Democrats will hope for a boost from the sight of the 44th president promoting a popular policy.
More to come.
Donald Trump has issued a celebratory press release regarding the retirement of congressman Fred Uptonone of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach him for the 6 January attack on the US Capitol. “4 down, 6 to go,” the press release reads.
Breaking fox news:
1) USCP rpt that they received multiple rpts of people on the Capitol grounds being bitten by a fox.
“One Encounter was at the Botanic Garden, and the second was at the House side of the Capitol near the building foundation.”– Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 5, 2022
2) USCP: “This morning, the USCP received a call about a fox approaching staff near First and C Street. This fox may have a den in the mulch bed area on First and C near the Dirksen Building, and there is another possible den near the Perimeter of the Russell Building. “
– Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 5, 2022
3) USCP: “Animal Control is currently on the grounds in response to this situation, and is looking to trap and relocate any foxes they find.
Foxes are wild animals that are very protective of their dens and territory. Please do not approach any fox you see. “
– Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) April 5, 2022
Martin Pengelly
Ivanka Trump will Testify before the January 6 committee this afternoon.
The Guardian confirmed that former president Donald Trump’s oldest daughter, and former senior White House Adviser, will speak to the panel virtually.
Her testimony will come after that of her husband and fellow former Presidential Adviser, Jared Kushnerwho spoke to the panel for more than six hours last week.
After Kushner’s testimony, Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the committee, told the Guardian: “There’s a momentum to this process when there’s cooperation. When people see that others are doing the right thing, it gives them the Courage to do the right thing. ”
Full story:
Republican congressman Fred Upton makes his retirement announcement on the House floor:
More Democratic Senators are sounding off on their support for Ketanji Brown Jacksonas expected:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will soon become JUSTICE Ketanji Brown Jackson. I am proud to support her Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States.
– Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) April 5, 2022
This week, I’ll vote YES on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Nomination to the Supreme Court. Judge Jackson is immensely qualified and has an unimpeachable character — she’ll serve the Supreme Court and our country well.
– Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) April 5, 2022
I just voted to advance Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s #SCOTUS Nomination to the floor of the Senate. ⁰
I’m honored to support Judge Jackson as she makes history.
– Senator Alex Padilla (@SenAlexPadilla) April 4, 2022
Martin Pengelly
Donald Trump has admitted he did not win the 2020 election.
“I didn’t win the election,” he said.
The admission came in a video interview with a panel of historians convened by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton Professor and editor of The Presidency of Donald Trump: A First Historical Assessment. The interview was published on Monday by the Atlantic.
Describing his attempts to make South Korea pay more for US military assistance, Trump said Moon Jae-inthe president of South Korea, was among the “happiest” world leaders after the 2020 US election put Joe Biden in the White House.
“By not winning the election,” Trump said, “he was the happiest man – I would say, in order, China was – no, Iran was the happiest.
“[Moon] was going to pay $ 5bn, $ 5bn a year. But when I didn’t win the election, they had to be the happiest – I would rate South Korea’s third- or fourth-happiest. “
Trump also said “the election was rigged and lost”.
Full story here:
Review of The Presidency of Donald Trump here:
Fred Upton, moderate Republican who voted for Trump impeachment, retiring
Politico is reporting that Fred Uptona Republican A congressman representing Michigan, is retiring.
NEWS: Fred Upton is retiring, per 4 people familiar
– Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) April 5, 2022
Upton was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol. In addition to Upton, three others in this select group are retiring: Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, John Katko of New York and Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio.
The Senate is expected to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme court this week. She has three Republicans committed to voting to confirm her Nomination, which feels like a tremendous Victory to some given how bipartisan politics have been these past few years. But it’s still a tight vote:
Even with her six-vote margin, Jackson is poised to have one of the narrowest confirmation votes since Reconstruction. Murkowski, one of three YES votes, last night decried the “awful process.”
“We are to the point where it’s almost automatic,” she told Reporters in the Capitol pic.twitter.com/PpauGO8yIr
– Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 5, 2022
Antony BlinkenUS secretary of state, called the atrocities in Bucha were a “deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities”.
Before Flying to Brussels, Blinken told Reporters the events in Bucha were a “deliberate campaign to kill to torture or rape. The reports are more than credible. The evidence is there for the world to see.”
– John Hudson (@John_Hudson) April 5, 2022
Ivanka Trump to meet with January 6 committee today
The Morning Joe is reporting that Ivanka Trump is meeting today with the House select committee tasked with investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol.
In February, the Guardian reported that the committee was considering issuing a subpoena to Ivanka Trump to force her cooperation with the inquiry into the efforts of her father, Donald Trumpto return himself to power on 6 January 2021. The month before, the committee released a public letter to Ivanka Trump calling upon her to provide “voluntary cooperation with our investigation”.
“We write to request your voluntary cooperation with our investigation on a range of critical topics,” the letter read. “We respect your privacy, and our questions will be limited to issues related to January 6th, the activities that contributed to or affected events on January 6th, and your role in the White House during that period. ”
Confirmation week continues for judge Ketanji Brown Jacksonas Democrats drill down on their efforts of making Jackson the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme court by the end of the week.
Jackson is already expected to clear the process, with Susan Collinsthe Republican Senator from Maine, committing last week to straying from the party line and backing her. But last night she received added support from Republicans Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski.
While Jackson did not need Romney or Murkowski’s votes – or even Collins’ vote – in order to be confirmed, they come off as a symbolic win after harsh, politically fraught questioning from Republicans during the confirmation hearings and debate over Jackson’s judicial record and Qualifications. They also say a lot about Joe Biden and his continued efforts to reach across the aisle.
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Barack Obama Returns to White House to Celebrate ACA
Howdy, live blog Readers. Happy Tuesday.
Former president Barack Obama will today return to the White House for the first time since leaving it in January 2017, to celebrate the anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Acthis signature legislative achievement.
Obama will deliver remarks alongside Joe Bidenwho was his vice-president at the time and whom Obama has long credited as being Instrumental in getting the legislation passed.
“Joe Biden,” Obama said in a White House video released last year, “we did this together. We always talked about how if we could get the principle of universal coverage established, we could then build on it. ”
Vice-President Kamala Harris will also deliver remarks at the event this afternoon, where Biden is expected to announce “additional action to further strengthen the ACA and save families hundreds of dollars a month on their healthcare”.
With Biden struggling in the polls in a midterm elections year – when parties which hold the White House often take a shellacking (ask Obama) – Democrats will hope for a boost from the sight of the 44th president promoting a popular policy.
More to come.