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(Photo : Alex Wong/Getty Images) Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Holds Briefing At The White House
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany participates in a White House briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House December 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Electoral College has voted to affirm President-elect Joe Biden s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
Kayleigh McEnany s comments on Biden s remark about children drew attacks online. Many of Biden s supporters are not tolerant of other s opinions.
Social media is not the right place for dissenting opinions like one s that concern the new president. But, during the former administration, this was not the case.
A tale of two transitions amid crisis: Bush smoothed the path for Obama, while Trump creates chaos for Biden
By Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff,Updated December 22, 2020, 12:06 p.m.
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Then President-elect Barack Obama spoke with outgoing President George W. Bush at the White House in November 2008.DOUG MILLS/NYT
The nation was deep in crisis, the White House was about to switch parties, and the outgoing president was focused on the potential for chaos.
There was to be none of it.
With the economy free-falling in late 2008, George W. Bush instructed members of his administration to go out of their way to make the transition to Barack Obamaâs presidency as smooth as possible. Bush himself ultimately made the biggest concession in that regard, infuriating many fellow Republicans by authorizing a $17.4 billion bailout of General Motors and Chrysler a month before Obama took office.
The bill would give a pay raise troops and fund a second Virginia-class attack submarine. Author: Mike Gooding Updated: 6:05 PM EST December 16, 2020
WASHINGTON The $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act contains good tidings of great joy for Hampton Roads, most importantly: full funding for a second Virginia Class submarine to be constructed in part at Newport News Shipbuilding, and a three percent pay raise for every man and woman in the military.
President Donald Trump has until December 23 to sign or veto the defense bill.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnaney said Tuesday that Trump planned to veto it.
The President has said he opposes the bill because it would require the renaming of ten Army bases named for Confederate figures from the Civil War.
she certainly doesn t quit. we saw her 2008 loss. she s not a quitter and we can admire that but the contrast is a subtle implication of her health issues but the bigger, more overt compicion is sositio allowed benghazi, we re not going to have dead americans on my watch that should still be here today. that was the biggest contrast but he dove into the health stuff, which isn t going to turn many voters but the bigger argument is the important one. not no keep digging on this, when kayleigh said he s a christian now and he s changed, can t both candidates say that about every fault they have and that they ve apologized for? when they apologize. but haven t didn t bill clinton apologize for the 90s for what happened in can t he not be forgiven? instead, he s using that as a
forgive bill clinton, and trump apologized not once, but five times. we can forgive him. it doesn t mean he needs to be president of the united states. bob i ll let you talk about this. this goes a long with the whole shackles clause. to kayleigh s point, maybe he has accepted jesus christ, and you think about alicia machado, and he brings in four women from clinton s past, does that seem like christian-like behavior, or does that seem like talking points to you, to be honest? well, chris christie said the apology should have just been i m sorry, period and what he s alluding to is he shouldn t have brought up bill clinton. he shouldn t have brought out those women in the press conference. exactly. it s kind of i m sorry but and stories shouldn t have a but