Democrats in Congress are pressing the Biden administration to extend the suspension of student loan payments before it’s set to expire May 1 as they seek to avoid cutting off a pandemic-induced benefit in the middle of an election year.
White House officials on Monday sought to stay the course in getting an infrastructure bill and a larger economic and social spending bill to President Biden's desk after Sen.
By Alexander Bolton and Amie Parnes - 02/06/21 06:05 AM EST
Senate Republicans are venting their frustration over what they see as long odds to negotiate a bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill with President Biden by blaming his staff for standing in the way.
Republican senators who met with Biden at the White House on Monday told colleagues after the meeting that White House chief of staff Ron Klain
“There’s certainly a mixed signal from him on the unity message,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer
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Cramer said Biden was “very engaged and well-prepared” for the meeting “but I also heard that his chief of staff stood at the back of the room and shook his head ‘no’ for every point.”
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The hold required an extra procedural vote, which Mayorkas cleared on Thursday, and he is likely to get confirmed on Monday.
That unexpected delay may have contributed to the postponement of additional immigration orders that require DHS participation. One of those orders, which would reunite migrant families separated at the border, was among the items White House chief of staff Ron Klain
Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center and former co-chair of the 2020 unity task force between the campaigns of Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders We want to make sure that the Biden administration avoids what the Trump administration did, she said.