POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi’s big headache and the Post’s black-box editor search
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People will feel jilted if they don’t get an invite to Joe Biden’s address. And Speaker Nancy Pelosi can’t afford that now because her majority is so narrow. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
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“Lawmakers scramble for ‘musical chairs’ to view Biden’s first Capitol speech,” by Mel Zanona and Sarah Ferris: “Which is a hotter ticket: Beyonce’s first post-pandemic concert or President Joe Biden’s first address to Congress? Washington is about to find out. Even as life slowly returns to normal on Capitol Hill amid the shrinking threat of Covid, strict safety protocols will remain in place for Biden’s April 28 joint address inside the House chamber. That means only 200 lawmakers, administration officials and staff will likely be allowed to attend the distanced and heavily sanitized event, a far cry from the typical cro
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Wednesday said the U.S. return to the U.N. Human Rights Council had to be approached in a spirit of “humility,” given the “imperfections” of the United States – a nation where white supremacy was woven into “our founding documents and principles.”
Nikki Haley on Thursday tore into the claim by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield that White supremacy was weaved into U.S. founding documents and principles – with Haley saying the criticism was a win for our enemies. The Biden administration criticizing our country in front of the world’s worst human rights abusers & oppressive regimes is a win for our enemies, Haley, a former U.N. ambassador, said.
Haley, who has been a fierce critic of the Biden administration’s actions at the world body, was responding to comments made by Thomas-Greenfield in a speech at the National Action Network.
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9 Mar 2021
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News he sees the first six weeks of Democrat President Joe Biden’s time in office as “boring but radical.”
Cruz’s comments came in a lengthy on-camera nearly 30-minute-long exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday morning in his U.S. Senate office in Washington, DC. The interview, one of the more in-depth ones he has done since Biden took over the White House and Democrats swept into complete control in Washington, focused on the early days of the Biden presidency, key policy issues such as China and immigration, and Democrat and media hypocrisy as demonstrated by their handling of his recent trip to Cancun. Cruz also addressed the growing concerns of many Republicans that Texas may be slipping away from the GOP’s grasp, explaining new trends in politics where working-class voters are shifting towards Republicans but suburban women are moving towards Democrats.