Joe Biden Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/joe-biden/ A platform for change Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:48:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Biden calls for restoring Obama-era regulations after multiple bank collapses https://flux.community/oliver-willis/2023/05/biden-calls-for-restoring-obama-era-regulations-after-multiple-bank-collapses/ Fri, 05 May 2023 20:10:51 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13391 With an eye toward preventing banking industry troubles that would require taxpayer rescues and bailouts, the Biden administration is advocating for undoing rule changes that were enacted by the Trump administration and weakened industry regulations. “The President believes that the weakening of common-sense bank safeguards and supervision during the Trump Administration for large regional banks […]

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]]> Lawsuit slams Biden admin over ‘unlawful’ oil lease sale https://flux.community/kenny-stancil/2023/03/lawsuit-slams-biden-admin-over-unlawful-oil-lease-sale/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 06:02:23 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12866 Seven groups on Monday filed a legal challenge to the U.S. Interior Department’s Lease Sale 259, which would offer 73.3 million acres of public waters in the Gulf of Mexico to the highest-bidding oil and gas drillers. Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, Healthy Gulf, Bayou […]

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]]> Progressives push Dems to nix tradition letting GOP block Biden judges https://flux.community/julia-conley/2023/02/progressives-push-dems-to-nix-tradition-letting-gop-block-biden-judges/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:18:13 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12844 With Democrats hoping to confirm dozens more federal judges following President Joe Biden’s milestone of appointing 100 new members of the judiciary, progressives on Friday said the party has no choice but to eliminate a tradition they say has been exploited by Republicans to block the president’s nominees. Advocacy group Alliance for Justice said Democratic […]

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]]> Are Republicans are losing the ability to communicate to people outside the Fox bubble? https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2023/02/republicans-are-losing-the-ability-to-communicate-to-people-outside-the-fox-bubble/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:23:39 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13240 One of the most underappreciated facts of American politics is that the reactionary movement that controls the Republican Party is much more radical than many of its voters. Most of them don’t want to cut spending on various federal budget items; they also support same-sex marriage, unlike their members of Congress. So why do tens of millions […]

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]]> Republicans are angry that Biden told the public about their policy agenda https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2023/02/republicans-are-angry-that-biden-told-the-public-about-their-policy-agenda/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 03:17:46 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=13237 As elected officials gear up for hotly contested elections in 2024, congressional Democrats are reacting with glee as Pres. Joe Biden doubles down on a new strategy of enraging Republicans by exposing their far-right policies to the public. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Delaware) hailed Biden for shining a spotlight on congressional Republicans’ desires to drastically […]

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]]> Destructive hurricanes fuel calls for Biden to declare climate emergency https://flux.community/jessica-corbett/2022/10/destructive-hurricanes-fuel-calls-for-biden-to-declare-climate-emergency/ Mon, 03 Oct 2022 18:00:54 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12473 With Puerto Rico and Florida still reeling from a pair of hurricanes—one of which made landfall again Friday as a Category 1 storm in South Carolina—activists across the United States have renewed calls for President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency. “Is it time to declare a climate emergency yet?” NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus—among the […]

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]]> Democrats urge Biden administration to use HIPAA to protect abortion rights and privacy https://flux.community/shefali-luthra/2022/09/democrats-urge-biden-administration-to-use-hipaa-to-protect-abortion-rights-and-privacy/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:00:21 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12296 Thirty Democratic senators led by Washington’s Patty Murray are calling on the Biden administration to use health care privacy laws to protect patients’ reproductive health information, specifically when it comes to abortion. In the letter sent Tuesday, first shared with The 19th, the senators ask the Biden administration to use the Health Insurance Portability and […]

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]]> ‘This is an evil country’: Christian fascist Nick Fuentes fumes over Biden speech https://flux.community/kyle-mantyla/2022/09/this-is-an-evil-country-christian-fascist-nick-fuentes-fumes-over-biden-speech/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:00:17 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12257 President Joe Biden delivered a speech last week from Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in which he warned that former President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters “represent extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Nick Fuentes, the racist, misogynistic, antisemitic, America-hating, Christian fascist leader of the white nationalist America First movement, is precisely the sort of MAGA activist that Biden […]

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]]> Why women are setting the new midterms conversation https://flux.community/errin-haines/2022/09/why-women-are-setting-the-new-midterms-conversation/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:00:16 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12213 We’re now just 67 days from Election Day, and the narrative around the midterms has shifted dramatically. A year that began with a focus on inflation concerns and the cost of living has turned into anger and frustration over American rights and freedoms — particularly access to abortion, guns and the ballot box. Women almost […]

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]]> ‘Pandemic is far from over’: People’s CDC tells Congress to fund covid response https://flux.community/kenny-stancil/2022/08/pandemic-is-far-from-over-peoples-cdc-tells-congress-to-fund-covid-response/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:00:50 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12179 A progressive coalition called the People’s CDC on Tuesday criticized the federal government for releasing a “horrifying set” of relaxed public health guidelines earlier this month and urged lawmakers to allocate sufficient funding to ensure that everyone has free access to masks, tests, treatments, vaccines, and other resources needed to defeat Covid-19. “The pandemic is far from over,” the People’s […]

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