Today, President Biden arrived in Iowa hours after the release of a new inflation report that showed prices rose 8.5 percent in March compared with a year ago — another blow to a chief executive struggling to make the case for his economic stewardship despite several positive trends. The message of the Iowa trip is simple: Biden gets it that Americans are feeling pinched.
Biden plans to visit a plant near Des Moines, where he’ll announce plans to allow a blended form of gasoline that uses ethanol, known as E15, to be sold this summer. It’s a move designed to curb prices at the pump, one of the largest contributors to a higher cost of living.
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The White House weighed in Tuesday on a law signed by Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) that outlaws abortion with only very limited exceptions, calling it “part of a disturbing national trend.”
“This unconstitutional attack on women’s rights is just the latest and one of the most extreme state laws signed into law to date,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. “Make no mistake: The actions...
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...