On August 9, Senate Democrats unveiled their $3.5 trillion budget resolution plan. The budget resolution sets out the congressional budget for a specific
After former president Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate for a second time earlier this month, Senate Minority Leader Republican Mitch McConnell excoriated him for his role in inciting a violent mob of supporters to storm the Capitol, saying there was no question Mr Trump was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day”.
The divide between the two deepened days later when Mr Trump described Mr McConnell in a lengthy diatribe as “a political hack” who lacked “political insight, wisdom, skill, and personality”.
Yet in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier on Thursday, Mr McConnell signalled that he would not let the growing rift between him and the former president get in the way of the Republicans reclaiming the White House.
The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists Dino Grandoni
with Alexandra Ellerbeck Climate scientists are dealing with a strange new feeling now that Joe Biden is president: optimism. Gone are the days of outright hostility from the White House to climate science, as was the case during Donald Trump s presidency. President Biden s early executive orders on climate change, say an array of chemists, biologists and social scientists, signal that this White House acknowledges their work toward understanding the causes and consequences of rising temperatures. But they know it remains extraordinarily difficult to actually cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to stop dangerous warming, even with Biden as president.