THE
BIDEN REPORT
A TIMELINE FOR CATHOLICS
THE BIDEN REPORT
A TIMELINE FOR CATHOLICS
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris admits she has a no-exceptions pro-abortion stance during an interview with NBC. Asked if she would be open to including “religious exemptions” in a bill to impose “abortion rights” nationwide, Harris says: “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.”
The Biden-Harris administration has cleared a path for its unelected bureaucrats in the nation’s top health agency to declare as ‘child abusers’ parents who wish to protect their children from life-altering experimental ‘gender transition’ drugs and surgeries,” Dr. Susan Berry writes.
The FBI releases updated crime statistics showing an increase in violent crime under the Biden-Harris administration. “Shockingly, the FBI’s September press release with the 2023 data doesn’t mention the changes to earlier data and that the original drop in violent crime for 2022 was now an increase,” the Crime Prevention Research Center reports.
Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris vows to prioritize creating a “pathway to citizenship” for migrants if she wins the election. Observers point out that such a pathway has the potential to allow millions of people who crossed the southern border illegally to eventually have the ability to vote in U.S. elections.
Critics lambast the Biden-Harris administration’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for its response to to the devastation of Hurricane Helene. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas tells reporters “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the [hurricane] season.” A day later, it is reported that FEMA had spent a billion dollars on programs for immigrants.
“The Department of Justice (DOJ) sue[s] Alabama over its effort to remove non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls,” The Daily Caller reports. In a statement announcing the lawsuit, controversial Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke says that “The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy.”
According to federal government statistics, hundreds of thousands of migrants convicted of crimes, including over 13,000 convicted of homicide and over 25,000 of sexual crimes, are currently inside the United States. FOX News’ Bill Melugin notes that ICE’s “non-detained docket has exploded under the Biden administration.”
Following a successful lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to force religious organizations to provide insurance coverage for “transgender” surgeries, the administration is paying $210,000 in lawyers’ fees and costs. A federal district court rules that religious employers do not have to cover the controversial procedures, and that federally funded religious doctors do not have to perform them.
Kamala Harris announces she will not attend the Al Smith Dinner in New York City on October 17, breaking a longstanding tradition in which the nominees of both parties give humorous speeches. Hosted by the Archdiocese of New York, the Catholic charitable dinner raises money for children. Donald Trump is slated to attend the 79th annual dinner.
Democratic nominee Kamala Harris comes out in favor of “eliminating” the filibuster – a longstanding U.S. Senate precedent – to pass a bill that would make the overturned Roe v. Wade decision nationwide law. West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Catholic who recently left the Democratic Party, responds “Shame on her. She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy.”
Vice President Kamala Harris calls Biden’s decision to drop out of the race a “selfless and patriotic act.” She adds: “I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.”
President Joe Biden announces he is ending his reelection bid and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House. “I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term,” Biden says.
The Biden administration’s Secret Service “repeatedly rejected requests for additional security in the two years before” the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, according to a New York Post report. Trump “asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues.”
On June 27, 2024 President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election. Observers across the political spectrum agree that Trump handily won the debate and Biden turned in a dismal performance. Some prominent liberal voices go so far as to suggest Biden step aside and allow another Democrat to seek the party’s nomination.
A chorus of journalists express concerns about CNN’s unusual rule changes and other strange behavior ahead of the first 2024 election debate between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. The debate arrangement allows moderators to mute candidate microphones at will, refrains from having a studio audience, and non-CNN journalists are barred from being present.
Internal documents from the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security claim that the country’s “Domestic Terrorism threat” mostly comes from Trump supporters. The files also single out people in the military and religious people as possible “terrorism” threats.
The Biden administration sends FBI agents to the home of Vanessa Sivadge, a nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital. Sivadge had asserted that staff at the hospital were committing Medicaid fraud in order to subject children to illicit “transgender” procedures.
Three years and $42 billion into the Biden administration’s high-speed internet initiative, the plan fails to deliver broadband to a single American. Administration officials say “that no construction projects will even start until 2025 at earliest,” according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr.
Under President Biden, the lion’s share of job growth in recent years went to immigrants while American-born workers continue to struggle in the aftermath of COVID restrictions. Per a government report, “there were only 971,000 more U.S.-born Americans employed in May 2024 compared to May 2019 prior to the pandemic.” Meanwhile, the number of employed immigrants “both legal and illegal” increased by 3.2 million.
In June 2023, Biden’s Department of Justice arraigned whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim the morning he was supposed to graduate from his medical residency, after he blew the whistle on an illegal child “transgender” medicine clinic. In June 2024, Haim is indicted with four felony counts of HIPAA violations by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari.
President Biden signs an executive order aimed at quelling the unprecedented border crisis that has exponentially intensified since the beginning of his presidency. Critics slam the move as a “campaign stunt” and a “desperate” attempt to save face amid mounting criticism of his border policies ahead of the November election.
According to documents obtained via a 2024 Freedom of Access to Information (FOIA) request from CatholicVote and Judicial Watch, U.S. Air Force bases hosted numerous pro-LGBTQ “Pride” events geared toward children. Allegedly several such events took place despite the Biden Department of Defense stating in 2023 that it would no longer allow drag shows on military bases.
Two legal organizations file a lawsuit after the Biden administration’s National Park Service denies the Knights of Columbus’ request to host a Memorial Day Mass at Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia. The Knights held the Mass every year from the 1960’s until National Park Service prevents it.
Newly revealed federal government data shows that in Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recorded a staggering 670,674 gotaways – almost exactly quintuple the 136,808 the agency had documented in FY 2020 when former President Donald Trump was in the White House.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, issues a video statement chastising President Joe Biden for making the Sign of the Cross at a pro-abortion event. “To use the sign of the Cross as Biden did … is to invoke the Cross in a sacrilegious manner,” Paprocki says.
The Biden administration plans to roll out a taxpayer-funded program giving government-issued identification cards to thousands of illegal migrants crossing the southern border. FOX News reports that the pilot program is intended to start in summer of 2024 “with the distribution of approximately 10,000 cards.”
Attorneys general from 22 states send a letter to Joe Biden opposing his plan to sign the United States onto the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments and the new Pandemic Treaty, which would grant “unprecedented and unconstitutional powers” to the United Nations (UN) health agency.
Many of the groups financially backing pro-Hamas protests on college campuses reportedly have financial ties to President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign and billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates. Donors funding the protests “include some of the biggest names in Democratic circles: [George] Soros, [David] Rockefeller and [Susan and Nick] Pritzker,” POLITICO reports.
Through the negligence of Biden’s border policies, an illegal Guatemalan immigrant man kills a Florida resident and her 4-year-old daughter. Amalia Coc Choc de Pec, 36, is found dead behind her trailer home and her daughter, Estrella Anastasia Pec Coc, 4, is found dead inside the mobile home. Both had been stabbed to death.
The Biden administration’s Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announces a rule to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I substance to Schedule III – a category encompassing “less dangerous” drugs. Rep. Andy Harris, R-MD, a doctor and pro-life Catholic, responds to the announced rule on X writing, “If the Biden Administration follows through with rescheduling, this decision will be anti-science and harmful to public health and safety.”
Critics blast a pro-LGBTQ change the Biden administration makes to the landmark Title IX which they argue undermines women’s and girl’s sports as well as privacy rights, parental rights, and religious liberty. CatholicVote Director of Governmental Affairs Tom McClusky states that under the new rule, “the Biden administration continues its war on women and girls. They can no longer feel safe in bathrooms, locker rooms or even ‘women’s’ shelters.”
Government statistics show an exponential increase in migrants from Communist China illegally crossing the border, compared to the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency. FOX News’ Bret Baier reports on X that “Border Patrol has apprehended 24,296 Chinese nationals crossing illegally between ports of entry,” during the first six months of Fiscal Year 2024. “The overwhelming majority (85%) of them were single adults (20,868),” Baier says.
The Biden administration’s Department of Labor “filed a lawsuit in late March against a California poultry processor and its affiliated entities, accusing the firms of using ‘oppressive child labor,’” Blaze Media reports. According to the complaint, minor workers are hired to use “sharp knives” to remove bones from raw poultry. Blaze Media investigates.
During a hearing, Biden administration Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra refuses to give a direct answer to Sen. John Kennedy, R-LA, when the lawmaker repeatedly asks him if he supports full-term abortions. “I certainly would support the reestablishment of Roe v. Wade,” Becerra stated, not giving a “yes” or “no” answer. Becerra is a self-professed Catholic.
The Biden administration announces a rule which aims to force employers to cover abortion under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The over 400-page rule mentions the word “abortion” a total of 348 times. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-NC, a Catholic, slams the rule stating, “Adding this controversial provision into the PWFA is wrong. Period.”
A federal court affirms that pharmacies are free to operate according to their religious beliefs and do not have to dispense chemical abortion drugs against their wills. A U.S. district court declares State of Texas and Mayo Pharmacy v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services “moot.” The case had been ongoing since approximately late 2022. Mayo Pharmacy owner Dr. Kevin Martian is a pro-life Catholic.
According to interviews with The Free Press’s Peter Savodnik, migrants waiting to cross the southern border vastly prefer Biden to Trump in the presidential election because they believe their chances of being freed in the U.S. interior are high with the current administration. “I want Biden to win,”45-year-old Daniel Cortez of Honduras, currently living in a migrant camp in northern Mexico, tells Savodnik.
An agency under Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announces a third gender option, “X,” defined as “Another Gender Identity,” for immigrants seeking citizenship. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announce that the option will appear on the revised N-400 application for naturalization.
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, DC, suggests President Joe Biden is a “cafeteria Catholic” in an interview. Gregory charges Biden with “ignoring or even contradicting” the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of life. The cardinal consistently hedges against denying pro-abortion politicians Communion and in the same interview praises Biden for being “very sincere” about his faith.
The Biden administration declares Easter Sunday 2024 “Transgender Day of Visibility” and bans religious-themed Easter egg designs from the White House’s annual children’s art contest. Former President Donald Trump calls the declaration “blasphemous” and accuses President Joe Biden of engaging in a “years-long assault on the Christian faith.”
President Biden’s Department of Justice announces the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the new center “will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
Biden is called out after a mob of more than 100 migrants storm past a wall on the border between Mexico and El Paso, TX, and attack Texas National Guard troops. Many observers blast the riot as a sign of President Joe Biden’s failure to rein in the crisis at the nation’s southern border.
The Biden administration announces finalized plans to impose several stringent regulations on gas-powered vehicles in a move critics long warned would amount to an “electric vehicle (EV) mandate.” In a statement, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls the regulations the “strongest-ever pollution standards for cars.”
The Biden administration sends Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents an internal newsletter touting the “gender identity expression” of a male intelligence officer who “likes to wear women’s clothes.”
A pair of controversial liberal priests visit President Biden’s White House as part of an event billed as a “St. Patrick’s Day Brunch with Catholic Leaders.” Frs. James Martin and Thomas Reese, SJ, are among the brunch’s attendees. Martin writes on social media that he was “deeply honored” to meet the president.
Vice President Kamala Harris visits a Planned Parenthood facility, becoming the first sitting administration official to do so in national history. “Don’t let your day go by without dwelling on the fact that the Vice President of the United States toured an abortion mill in solidarity with it,” writes Andrew Walker. “Imagine thinking this party is a plausible option for Christians to support.”
The Biden Justice Department says in a press release that the Utah Department of Corrections has “violated the Americans with Disabilities Act” when it “failed to provide” a male prisoner with “transgender” hormone therapy. The move signals the administration’s position that prisons throughout the country must obey LGBTQ ideology.
President Biden’s State Department privately discloses to Congress that it spent $77 million taxpayer dollars on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts in the last two years — and it plans to eclipse that total in the final year of Biden’s first term.
The Biden administration’s Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announces it will offer taxpayer-funded in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy to veterans, including those in same-sex “marriages.”
Asked if he would take executive action to resolve the crisis at the border, President Joe Biden says “I’m counting on the border action happening by itself.” Referring to Congress, he adds: “They’re passing it.” Critics note that Biden issued numerous border-related executive orders immediately upon taking office – actions generally believed to have precipitated the immigration crisis.
Biden warns in his 2024 State of the Union address that not “since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault here at home as they are today.” He touted the war in Ukraine and pledged to “restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again.”
The Biden administration’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) admits to flying hundreds of thousands of “inadmissible” migrants into the country. Officials state the practice creates “vulnerabilities” for law enforcement.
A shocking report reveals Biden is covering for anti-Christian hate groups who have attacked hundreds of Catholic churches since 2020: “We can expect more attacks on Catholic Churches… We have not seen a single federal prosecution of these attacks,” says Tommy Valentine of CatholicVote’s Catholic Accountability Project.
EWTN White House correspondent Owen Jensen asks President Joe Biden what he thinks about the Catholic Church’s teachings on in-vitro fertilization (IVF). “I don’t agree with that position,” Biden responds before walking away. This comment follows the controversy after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling established the personhood of unborn babies conceived through IVF.
Breitbart News reports that the Biden administration planted a Democrat operative inside a Fulton County District Attorney’s office to target former President Donald Trump. “If the Biden administration planted the operative, as the sources say, it would present a strong argument that the administration interfered in the 2024 presidential election,” writes Breitbart’s Wendell Husebo.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, R-GA, demands answers from President Biden relating the circumstances involving 26-year-old illegal immigrant Jose Antonio Ibarra, who was accused of murdering a Georgia college student. Kemp writes Biden in a letter: “The American people deserve to know who is illegally entering our country due to your administration’s failures, and what risks and challenges every state must now face.” Kemp calls Biden’s refusal to work with governors “outrageous.”
Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador files a brief petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Biden administration from overriding the state’s pro-life law. “The whole point of Dobbs was to restore to the states their authority to regulate abortion,” the brief states.
Reports reveal President Joe Biden’s younger brother, Jim Biden, was deeply involved in a company being investigated for an alleged massive Medicare fraud scheme. POLITICO obtained an email in which the younger Biden mentions using his connection with his brother, the former vice president, to help with the scheme.
The Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) sues the state of Tennessee over a law protecting people from the spread of HIV. The law heavily penalizes people who engage in prostitution while knowingly infected with HIV. The DOJ claims the legislation violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The Biden administration’s Justice Department comes under fire for prosecuting and convicting numerous pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE). In one case, the administration convicts a group of six pro-lifers for violating the Act and the Conspiracy Against Rights statute – also known as the KKK Act.
The House impeaches Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a single-vote margin. The 214-213 vote comes amid widespread criticism of Mayorkas’ Department of Homeland Security for its role in the Biden administration’s unprecedented crisis at the nation’s southern border.
Asked whether she could take over for President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris tells the Wall Street Journal: “I am ready to serve. There’s no question about that.” Democratic operative Jennifer Palmieri tells the Journal: “There was always going to be a lot of scrutiny and pressure on” Harris, and “I think that the special counsel’s report has sort of accelerated that moment.”
President Joe Biden “willfully retained classified” documents at his private residence, Special Counsel Robert Hur concludes, but the counsel decides to not charge the president with a crime due to Biden’s “significantly limited” memory. During the probe, Biden fails in interviews to remember the dates he served as vice president and also could not recall “even within several years” when his son Beau passed away.
The Biden administration’s Department of Education submits the final touches to its new Title IX rule to force K-12 schools and colleges to enact policies that specifically cover sexual orientations and gender identities of all kinds.
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington blasts Biden for his pro-abortion rally in Virginia, calling it “incredibly devastating” that “Biden would place ‘choice’ over his sacred duty to protect life.” “President Biden has made abortion the centerpiece of his campaign,” Burbidge writes. “At a rally in Manassas, VA, he advocated for codifying Roe v. Wade into law.”
Video evidence backs up suspicions that bureaucrats in numerous federal agencies tag-teamed with far-left Southern Poverty Law Center to target Americans as “domestic terrorism threats.”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker becomes another high-profile blue-state Democrat to criticize President Joe Biden’s inaction on the intensifying border crisis. “Not enough has been done, there’s no doubt about that,” Pritzker said Sunday. “I think that the president needs to do more.”
The Biden administration reportedly works with a German government agency to train hundreds of American school teachers to turn their students against conservative media. “One would think that the United States Embassy to Germany would be focused on advancing the interests of the United States in Germany,” writes Tim Kilcullen. “Under the Biden administration, though, it was the reverse.”
The Biden administration investigates a Texas doctor for exposing his former hospital’s secret and illicit continuation of “transgender” procedures on minors. “For me, it’s obvious that this is a political investigation in order to prevent this from happening at other hospitals that might be lying to the public about the existence of their programs,” says Dr. Eithan Haim.
The Biden administration’s National Park Service decides to tear down a statue of William Penn from a historic park in Philadelphia to make the park a more “welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience for visitors.”
The Biden administration repeatedly rejects calls to redesignate Nigeria on the U.S. State Department’s list of worst religious persecutors. The administration in the past attributes “the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria not to religious persecution but to a conflict over resources exacerbated by climate change,” Real Clear Religion reported.
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announces its decision to sue Texas over a signed law to make illegal immigration a state crime. “I like my chances,” Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott says in response to the suit. “Texas is the only government in America trying to stop illegal immigration.”
Reports show that nearly a quarter-million (242,418) encounters between migrants and enforcement agents occurred at the southern border in November 2023 alone. In January 2021, the month President Joe Biden took office, that number was only 78,414.
The Biden administration plans to remove a longstanding monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers killed in action. The monument has stood in Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia for 109 years.
The House votes to formalize its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, taking a critical step that GOP leaders argue is necessary to force the White House into complying with their investigation. The measure passes 221 to 212, with every Republican voting in favor and all present Democrats voting against.
The Biden-Harris campaign shares a “handy guide for responding to crazy MAGA nonsense” during holiday family gatherings. One segment advises telling relatives who say Trump secured the border: “No he didn’t… All he did was separate families, put children in cages, and leave behind a broken immigration system for Joe Biden to clean up.”
“The Census Bureau is asking Congress for $10 million to figure out how best to promote the fiction that sex is assigned at birth, rather than the scientific fact that it is present at conception,” writes Mike Gonzalez. “It is part of a new set of questions on sexual orientation and gender identity that the bureau wants to ask residents, even as young as 15.”
An agency in the Department of Health and Human Services proposes a new rule to prohibit families who do not support LGBTQ ideology from caring for “LGBTQ-identifying children.” The United States Administration for Children and Families is pushing for LGBTQ language to be added under already-established requirements that foster families provide a “safe” and “nurturing” environment for foster kids.
A leaked document shows the Biden administration’s National Security Agency (NSA) compiled a vast Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Glossary of far-left ideological words and phrases. “It is disturbing that this is what the senior leadership of one of our most critical intelligence agencies is worried about when we literally have the world on fire,” says Rep. Mike Waltz, R-FL.
An internal email sent to the Biden administration’s Health and Human Services employees is released to the public. “Happy National Coming Out Day!” the email reads. “Today we are proud to announce a new HHS Gender Identity Non-Discrimination and Inclusion Guidance that … [outlines] employee rights and protections related to gender identity.” The email says that HHS “employees should be” addressed using “the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves.” It also clarifies that employees of the department “can wear clothing” and use “restrooms in accordance with their gender identity.”
A group of Republican senators confronts the Biden administration over a potential policy that would use taxpayer money to fund abortions among unaccompanied minors at the southern border. The rule “blatantly violates prohibitions on the use of federal funds to facilitate abortions” and “should be immediately withdrawn,” the senators write.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says President Joe Biden in 2017 received $40,000 in “laundered China money” from the bank account of his brother and his sister-in-law in the form of a personal check. The incident meant that the president “exposed himself to future blackmail” from Beijing, Comer says.
The U.S. Catholic bishops tell the Biden administration that its proposed guidance on sex-based harassment in the workplace is unconstitutional because it bans speech opposing abortion and expressing certain views on contraception, same-sex relationships, and gender ideology. The guidance would “chill” free speech, the bishops’ legal team says.
The Department of Defense’s (DOD) current nuclear weapons management presents a major risk to national security, per the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The GAO report finds that the DOD has failed to resolve many oversight issues that began as the Trump administration was ending.
At a House subcommittee hearing, members of Congress and witnesses show how the Biden administration is allowing sexually graphic books in school libraries in the name of opposition to “book banning.” “[None] of the evidence suggests books are being removed for any reason other than inappropriate, explicit content,” says Rep. Aaron Bean, R-FL.
In a primetime address to the nation from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden calls on Congress to pass a massive aid package for Israel’s and Ukraine’s wars against Hamas and Russia. Biden called for $14 billion in funding for Israel and an additional $60 billion in funding for Ukraine.
“Israel is going after people who have engaged in barbarism that is as consequential as the Holocaust. So I think Israel has to respond. They have to go after Hamas,” President Joe Biden says in a 60 Minutes interview following Hamas’ October 2023 attacks on Israel. “Now Hamas is a bunch of cowards. They’re hiding behind the civilians. … I’m confident the Israelis are going to do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians.”
Three Senate Democrats join ranks with Republicans to call on Biden to reinstate a hold on $6 billion in Iranian assets, following Hamas’ Iran-backed attack on Israel. Biden unfroze the large sum as part of a controversial prisoner swap earlier in 2023. The Biden administration has insisted Iran would only be able to use the money for humanitarian purposes.
The Biden administration may be failing to track millions of illegal migrants, according to an interim report assembled by GOP House Judiciary Committee staff. The number of illegal migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border exceeded 2.2 million in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2023. The federal government has “no confirmed departure” for more than 2.4 million migrants encountered since January 2021.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cites an “acute and immediate need” to waive dozens of federal laws to build a border wall in south Texas where illegal migration has surged – a sharp contrast to the Biden administration’s many dismissals of the use of such barriers.
The Biden administration proposes a guideline on harassment in the workplace that includes “misgendering” employees under the legal umbrella of sex-based harassment. The move would change current legal definitions of sex-based harassment to include comments about “reproductive decisions … about contraception and abortion” as well as “sexual orientation and gender identity.”
More than 300,000 immigrants attempted to enter the United States unlawfully or were paroled in during August, 2023. This number surpasses all national records and spells a catastrophe for the Biden administration that claimed its sweeping policy reforms were working.
A homeschooling family who has lived in the United States legally for the last 15 years is threatened with deportation by the Biden Admin. The Romeike family are Evangelical Christians who fled from Germany to East Tennessee in 2008 after German authorities fined them. Homeschooling is illegal in Germany.
Mayor Eric Adams sharply criticizes President Joe Biden for refusing to meet with him to discuss New York’s ongoing migrant crisis during the president’s visit to the city. “New York doesn’t deserve this,” Adams says of the massive costs New York is sustaining due to the influx of illegal immigrants.
Data shows poverty, especially among children, rising at an astronomical rate despite President Joe Biden’s 2021 promise to cut child poverty in half. The poverty rate spiked to 12.4% in 2022, from 7.8% in the prior year. The poverty rate for children alone also hits 12.4%, more than doubling from 5.2% in 2021. Politico White House reporter Adam Cancryn writes, “Just two years after orchestrating the largest expansion of the U.S. safety net in a half-century, Biden’s $2 trillion bet that big-government policies could vastly improve life for the poorest Americans is coming to a close.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, says that House Republicans have “uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct” that will serve as the basis of an impeachment inquiry. “Today, I am directing our House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe,” McCarthy announces.
Leaders and lawmakers in several blue states criticize President Biden over the ongoing crisis at the southern border, which has caused many illegal immigrants to flock north. “I honestly thought shipping illegals to the blue state libs would be a useless PR stunt,” one commentator notes on X (formerly Twitter). “It’s turned out to be an absolute master stroke in political strategy.”
President Biden says he wants Congress to approve the development of a new COVID shot. “I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to Congress a request for additional funding for a new vaccine that is necessary, that works,” the president said. “Tentatively it is recommended that it will likely be recommended everybody get it no matter whether they’ve gotten it before or not.”
President Biden’s reelection campaign launches an ad bashing Republican presidential candidates over their support for a national abortion ban. The one-minute ad, entitled “These Guys,” targets women in battleground states and runs digitally through YouTube and Connected TV. The campaign’s first post-debate ad is part of a 16-week, $25 million advertising campaign.
President Joe Biden tours the devastation in Hawaii nearly two weeks after deadly wildfires destroyed the historic city of Lahaina, killing hundreds. In videos shared on social media, locals can be heard chanting “f*** Joe Biden” as the president and first lady walk down a street. “Here he comes after 13 days,” one person says. “Wow, he’s finally here. Wow, yeah, thanks for nothing,” another says.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issues a regulation establishing a national mandate on employers to accommodate workers’ abortions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The alarming rule opens for a 60-day period during which citizens can comment with objections.
The Biden administration conducts what has been described as “a giant science experiment” — paying farmers $3 billion in subsidies to go “green.” Politico’s Garrett Downs reported that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) “is pulling off a feat unimaginable a mere decade ago: gaining wide support within the conservative farming industry for a program to fight climate change.”
The Biden administration announces the defunding of archery and hunting programs in elementary and secondary schools due to a bill that Republican signees claim was misinterpreted. Schools have already begun canceling the programs, but Rep. Mark Green, R-TN, hopes to save them. “Hunting has been a tradition since the beginning of human history. The Biden admin’s decision to push its elitist values on Tennesseans isn’t going to fly,” Green said.
During testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in a closed-door meeting, Devon Archer says Hunter Biden would sometimes put his father on speakerphone during meetings with business partners. Archer, a former associate of the younger Biden’s, says the first son would put, then-Vice President, Biden on calls to sell “the brand.”
A top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) admits that people-smuggling cartels are thriving under the Biden administration. Migrants are paying cartels up to $15,000 “to facilitate their journey to the border,” says Blas Nunez-Neto, who is Alejandro Mayorkas’ deputy for border and immigration policy at DHS. “This is so lucrative [for the cartels], in fact, that we are now seeing the drug cartels increasingly becoming a key player in … actually moving people and becoming deeply involved in human smuggling….”
An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launches a new, taxpayer-funded “learning series” on gender and sexual orientation as part of the Biden administration’s agenda “to better support the LGBTQIA2S+ community.” The Administration for Children and Family has “a budget of more than $70 billion, making it the second largest agency in HHS.”
President Biden signs an executive order to increase the distribution and use of all contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration, including pills that induce abortions. “Contraception is an essential component of reproductive health care that has only become more important in the wake of Dobbs and the ensuing crisis in women’s access to health care,” a White House press release reads.
Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty to multiple counts of tax fraud and illegal gun-possession, contradicting President Joe Biden’s assurance that he was “confident” his son was innocent. “First of all my son has done nothing wrong, I trust him, I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him,” Biden said in a May interview. The president has also called Hunter Biden “the smartest guy I know.”
The Biden administration pulls $4.5 million in funding from the Oklahoma State Department of Health’s (OSDH) family planning services in what critics call an act of retribution for the state’s pro-life laws. As a result, the OSDH is unable to serve around 30,000 low-income people with family health services such as counseling, testing and treatment for STDs, physical examinations, and prenatal care and education.
President Joe Biden’s administration is facing a backlash over its Pride Month display at the White House as critics say it violates the U.S. Flag Code. Biden posted a photograph of a set of flags hanging from the White House. The display includes a “Pride” flag flanked by two American flags.
The Biden administration plans to “hijack” a U.S. program delivering AIDS relief in Africa in order to promote abortion, according to Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ. “President Biden has hijacked PEPFAR, the $6 billion a year foreign aid program designed to mitigate HIV/AIDS in many targeted — mostly African — countries in order to promote abortion on demand,” Smith writes in a letter to colleagues.
In a White House briefing, the Biden Administration announces plans to address what it describes as “LGBTQI+ safety,” “LGBTQI+ youth mental health,” and a rise in so-called “book bans.” Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security will provide LGBTQ organizations with bi-monthly threat briefings, safety resources, and preventative training.
President Joe Biden signs a bill into law to avoid a default on the federal government’s debt by raising the debt ceiling. The bill, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act, will suspend the debt limit until January 2025 and implement restraints on spending that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would reduce budget deficits by $1.5 trillion over the next decade.
The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See flies a Pride flag at the embassy building in the Vatican during the month of June, prompting online backlash from Catholics. “During the month of June, the [U.S.] celebrates Pride Month. [U.S. in Holy See] stands with the LBGTQI+ community against discrimination and other forms of persecution because of who they are and whom they love,” the embassy tweeted, along with a picture of the flag hanging from the embassy building.
President Biden foments racial tensions at the graduation ceremony for Howard University, a historically black school. The president claims that America’s “greatest terrorist threat” comes in the form of “white supremacy.” He takes a pessimistic view of America’s fight against racism in his speech, claiming that it is “a battle that’s never really over.”
Amid urgent warnings from border patrol officials, the Biden administration reinstates a Trump-era immigration rule in a seeming effort to prevent some of the chaos expected to result from Biden’s decision to allow Title 42 to expire. The reinstated Trump rule disqualifies migrants from applying for asylum in the U.S. if they neglected to first apply for asylum in other countries they traveled through, such as Mexico.
The Biden administration announces a new military aid package of $1.2 billion for Ukraine, bringing the total since its war with Russia began to $36.9 billion. The Pentagon declares the package as a way “to reaffirm the steadfast U.S. support for Ukraine, including to bolster its air defenses and sustain its artillery ammunition needs.”
The archbishop of military services issues a scathing pastoral letter condemning the Senate and the Biden administration for approving a new Department of Defense rule allowing taxpayer-funded abortions at military hospitals. “The policy and rule, now in effect, are morally repugnant and incongruent with the Gospel, which the faithful are commissioned to share throughout the world,” writes Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who also serves as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
President Joe Biden announces he is running for reelection in a video posted on YouTube. An image of a pro-abortion protester holding an “Abortion is Healthcare” sign is shown seconds into the video. “Personal freedom is fundamental to who we are as Americans,” the president says following an opening montage.
The Biden administration’s progressive green energy agenda makes electric vehicles (EVs) a key component in its solution to the “global climate crisis.” The dark underbelly of the EV industry, however, is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions in the Congo basin that includes African children mining for cobalt in inhumane conditions “in which laborers earn less than $2 per day while using their own tools, primarily their hands.”
Robin Dunn Marcos, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, reluctantly answers that “We do not track or monitor” unaccompanied minors who cross the U.S. border during a hearing by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s subcommittee on national security. Reports of the high number of unaccompanied migrant children who have gone missing at the southern border leads lawmakers to raise concerns that the government agency had lost track of tens of thousands of children.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issues a “notice of proposed rulemaking” that seeks to redefine the terms “person,” “natural person,” and “individual” to exclude the unborn. The rule change proposal couches the move in language found in the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, a pro-life federal law meant to protect babies who survive botched abortions.
Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a man who claims to be a woman, has assisted Planned Parenthood in becoming the second-largest provider of cross-sex hormones in the United States, beginning to partner with them as early as 2017. Critics argue that “transgender” surgeries and treatments are cash cows for surgeons and medical providers, because patients often require “care” for a lifetime after the first life-altering intervention.
The Biden administration announces its Department of Health and Human Services will create a publicly-funded abortion hotline. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who claims to be Catholic, describes the initiative as “a secure national hotline to provide referral services for women in need of accurate information about their legal reproductive health care options.”
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the FBI used at least one undercover agent to develop plans to cultivate “sources” in Catholic churches, according to internal documents obtained by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The FBI has sought to use Catholic churches as “new avenues for tripwire and source development,” including at “mainline Catholic parishes” and among “local diocesan leadership,” the documents reveal.
The White House condemns the Ugandan Parliament for passing legislation against the promotion of the “LGBTQIA+” agenda in the conservative Christian country, and threatens to cut off aid over the law if it’s enacted. “No one should be attacked, imprisoned, or killed simply because of who they are or whom they love,” says White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Novel aspects of the law include a ban on “promoting homosexuality” among children and a heightened penalty for child rape.
A federal judge rules against the Biden administration’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit alleging censorship, saying that the states of Missouri and Louisiana had “plausibly alleged” First Amendment violations. The Biden administration had made a motion to dismiss the suit by Republican Attorneys General Erik Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana, who say the administration colluded with Big Tech to censor public political debate.
Leo Varadkar, the gay prime minister of Ireland, celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with Vice President Kamala Harris. “As doctors and as proud members of the LGBT community, allow us to say how inspired we’ve been by your personal advocacy for marriage equality, particularly in relation to Proposition 8, and also your defense of the Affordable Health Care Act,” Varadkar says to Harris.
President Biden says in an interview that Florida’s decision to ban subjecting children to so-called “sex-change” procedures is “cruel” and “close to sinful.” Biden also suggests there should be laws forbidding opposition to the “trans” medical agenda’s targeting of children.
The Biden administration moves quickly to bailout the failed California Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and reimburses SVB depositors. Five days after the collapse of SVB triggered fears of a global banking collapse, new reports show business leaders expect inflation to rise in March.
The Biden administration gives a biological man an award for courage in honor of International Women’s Day during a Wednesday ceremony at the White House. Alba Rueda, a man who identifies as a woman, receives an “International Women of Courage” award from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and first lady Jill Biden. Rueda is an Argentinian politician.
The New York Times releases a report confirming that unaccompanied migrant children, primarily from Central America, are trafficked in exploitative and oftentimes dangerous working conditions within the United States — under the watch of the Biden administration.
The Department of Justice charges eight more pro-life activists with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The charges stem from a 2020 incident when the pro-lifers allegedly blocked the entrance of a Michigan abortion facility. The DOJ charged 26 pro-life activists under the FACE Act in 2022 alone, but did not charge a single pro-abortion activist in 2022, “despite over 100 apparent pro-abortion attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and churches across the nation, according to CatholicVote trackers,” reports Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Signal.
The Biden administration turned down a request for federal disaster assistance from Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine in the aftermath of the train derailment in the state earlier this month that led to a large release of toxic chemicals. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) told Ohio’s state government that the incident did not qualify as a traditional disaster, such as a tornado or hurricane, for which it usually provides assistance.
News that five more classified documents dating from the Obama-Biden administration were found in President Joe Biden’s possession, this time at his home in Delaware. The additional pages were found just hours after the White House revealed Thursday that one document had been found in a storage area near Biden’s car garage, the New York Times revealed.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he has appointed a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden over classified documents that were found in a private office and in the garage at his home. An order signed by Garland said there would be an investigation into “the possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records discovered.”
Congress launched a probe into President Joe Biden over classified material from Biden’s time as vice president was discovered in his personal office at a think tank in Washington, D.C. “The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating President Biden’s failure to return vice-presidential records — including highly classified documents — to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in violation of the Presidential Records Act,” wrote the Committee on Oversight and Accountability chairman.
Classified documents found at a Biden-aligned think tank last year reportedly featured intelligence on topics such as Iran, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. The ten documents recovered at President Joe Biden’s private office at the think tank last November date from his last term as vice president. The classified files were mixed in with private materials such as Beau Biden’s funeral arrangements.
Classified documents from President Joe Biden’s time as Vice President were discovered at the Penn Biden Center by the president’s personal attorneys on November 2. The National Archives took possession of the documents on November 3. Biden slammed former President Trump last year after the FBI seized classified documents from his Florida home, asking in a 60 Minutes interview “how that could possibly happen” and how “anyone could be that irresponsible.”
President Joe Biden visited the southern border for the first time in his presidency amid growing political pressure over the border crisis and while migrant numbers remain at historic highs. So far in Fiscal Year 2023, which began in October, the first two months have outpaced the same period last year — with 233,740 encounters in November, compared to 174,845 in 2021 and 73,994 in 2020.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the newest military aid package to Ukraine, worth a total of $3.75 billion. The package includes 50 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles with 500 TOW anti-tank missiles and 250,000 rounds of 25mm ammunition, 55 mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, 138 high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles, eighteen 155mm self-propelled Howitzers, and 18 ammunition support vehicles.
President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. will provide Ukraine’s armed forces with armored combat vehicles. The announcement came in a joint statement by Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who promised to send similar equipment to Ukraine. Both leaders also pledged that their countries will provide Ukrainians training on how to use the tanks.
President Joe Biden told reporters that it is his “intention” to visit the southern border for the first time since taking office nearly two years ago. The occasion of the visit would be his trip to the North American Leaders’ Summit on January 9-10. Biden’s remarks come after he told reporters last month that “there are more important things going on.”
In the United States, the Biden administration continues to push the “transgender” agenda unbendingly, even pressuring medical and educational professionals to subject children to experimental “gender” therapies and treatments. “About half of European Union member countries,” meanwhile, “ban cross-sex surgeries for minors, and Finland, Sweden and the U.K. have taken decisive steps back from childhood gender transitions amid growing concern about the procedures’ safety and effectiveness,” Laurel Duggan reports.
President Biden signed the $1.85 trillion omnibus bill into law. Washington Examiner columnist James Antle noted that the omnibus spending bill showed Republicans falling into a familiar spending trap. “Republicans run against reckless Democratic spending and then either are perceived to be acquiescing to it or engaging in even riskier economic behavior to impose their will on whatever liberal sits behind the Resolute Desk,” writes Antle.
Journalist David Zweig released a new round of internal Twitter files showing that the current White House “rigged the COVID debate” by censoring information that was “inconvenient to government policy,” discrediting doctors and experts who bucked the administration’s narratives. Zweig pointed out that the administration even targeted ordinary users who shared embarrassing data from the CDC.
Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is removing the shipping containers on federal lands that are currently acting as a wall along the state’s southern border. Ducey made the call after the Biden administration opened a lawsuit against him for securing the border “unlawfully and without authority” and “damaging the United States.” Ducey’s administration promised to reopen the border by January 4.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that the Biden administration cannot enforce its COVID vaccine mandate on federal contractors. “The President’s use of procurement regulations to reach through an employing contractor to force obligations on individual employees is truly unprecedented,” the ruling stated.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily paused the Biden administration’s widely-criticized lifting of Title 42 immigration restrictions while the high court considers a Republican-backed request for a longer hold against the plan. Attorneys general from 19 states succeeded in the request for an administrative stay over the pandemic-era policy that allows border officials to turn away some illegal border crossers.
“President Joe Biden has signed the so-called Respect for Marriage Act into law, spurning warnings the act will impede religious freedom, and surrounded by LGBTQ activists, lawmakers, and drag queens,” reported Mary Margaret Olohan. “The move was strongly condemned by religious leaders like CatholicVote President Brian Burch,” who said: “This gross attempt to redefine marriage allows radical activists to declare war on anyone that disagrees with them.”
President Joe Biden this week invited “Marti G. Cummings,” a man who dresses in drag and holds “drag queen story hours” for children, to attend the signing of the radical Respect for Marriage Act recently passed by Congress. “Cummings” has regularly made a show of involving children in “Pride” events, while at the same time insisting that “kink” (overt displays of what participants find sexually arousing) “is welcome at Pride.”
President Biden made the controversial decision to swap a Russian arms dealer for American basketball star Brittney Griner, whom Russia had imprisoned on drug charges. Critics complained that Biden’s swap left U.S. Marine veteran Paul Whelan behind in Russian custody. Whelan told CNN on Thursday that he was “greatly disappointed” not to have been freed. The White House celebrated Griner’s release, calling her “an important role model and inspiration to millions of Americans, particularly the LGBTQI+ Americans and women of color.”
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by Texas and Louisiana over Biden administration guidelines that severely restrict border law enforcement. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that states have no standing to sue the federal government. Justice Samuel Alito said Prelogar was operating under a “rule of special hostility to state standing,” while past court rulings call for a “special solicitude for state standing.”
The Supreme Court ordered that President Biden’s student debt relief program remain blocked until after oral arguments to determine whether the program could continue. The Court scheduled oral arguments for February 23. The Biden administration had petitioned the high court to allow the program to proceed while several legal challenges were considered by lower courts.
President Joe Biden faced backlash after his administration announced it would allow Chevron to resume pumping oil in socialist Venezuela, reversing a Trump-era ban put in place to punish socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The move comes amid widespread criticism of the Biden administration for hampering oil production in the United States. Former White House Economic Adviser Stephen Moore called the latest decision an “America last” policy.
The White House is extending the pause on federal student loan payments to June 30, 2023 as the Biden administration battles at the Supreme Court to put President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness policy into effect. The move represents a reversal of Biden’s vow in August to end the COVID-era student loan payment pause in December.
A new report from Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL, and Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, details how the Biden administration is using new diversity and equity initiatives in the military to promote critical race theory and “gender” ideology, which the Republican leaders argue has significantly weakened the U.S. armed forces. The military “cannot be turned into a left-wing social experiment” or “used as a cudgel against America itself,” the report states.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified that the crisis at the southern border of the United States is extremely grave during a Senate hearing, despite earlier statements from the Biden administration insisting that the border is secure. “The entire hemisphere is suffering a migration crisis,” Mayorkas said, confirming that the number of migrants crossing the border this past year has been “the highest on record.”
President Joe Biden suggested he wasn’t confident Democrats in Congress could codify so-called “abortion rights,” then immediately expressed regret that he made the comment. Asked what Americans can expect, Biden answered: “I don’t think they can expect much of anything other than we’re going to maintain our positions. I’m not going to get into more questions. I shouldn’t have even answered your question.”
The Biden administration is directing shelter officials to ensure that unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody have access to abortions, including by moving children to states where abortion is still legal. The Office of Refugee Resettlement said officials “must not prevent [unaccompanied children] from accessing legal abortion-related services” and must facilitate abortions when requested by a minor.
During a White House presser after the midterm elections, a reporter pointed out that “75% of voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction” and asked Biden: “What in the next two years do you intend to do differently to change people’s opinion of the direction of the country?” Biden replied: “Nothing, because they’re just finding out what we’re doing. The more they know about what we’re doing, the more support there is. So, I’m not going to change the direction.”
Federal Judge Mark Pittman issued an order against Biden’s student debt relief plan in a win for the Job Creators Network Foundation, a conservative advocacy group that challenged the plan as unconstitutional. “No one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch, or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States,” Pittman wrote.
President Joe Biden caused a bipartisan uproar after he said in a speech about coal production: “We’re going to be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar power.” West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, called Biden’s remark “outrageous and divorced from reality.” The White House soon issued a statement walking back the president’s comment.
In a final speech ahead of the midterm elections, President Joe Biden once again denounced “extreme” Republicans as a threat to democracy, this time trying to draw a link between Trump’s rhetoric on January 6, 2021 and a recent attack against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband by a left-wing San Francisco resident. Biden called on Americans to “think long and hard” about voting for “extreme MAGA Republicans.”
The U.S. bishops said President Biden must abandon his “single-minded extremism” on abortion. “The president is gravely wrong to continue to seek every possible avenue to facilitate abortion, instead of using his power to increase support and care to mothers in challenging situations,” said Archbishop William Lori, chair of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. “As pastors who deal daily with the tragic impacts of abortion, we know that abortion is a violent act which ends the life of preborn children and wounds untold numbers of women.”
President Biden said it was “immoral” for states to ban gender transitions for minors. “No state should be able to do that in my view,” Biden said in his interview with controversial transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
The Department of Defense (DOD) released a memo to senior Pentagon leadership titled “Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care.” The memo, signed by Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin III, directs the Department to provide funding for service members wishing to travel for an abortion. CatholicVote Director of Government Affairs Tom McClusky denounced the move as illegal. “The DOD will start funding abortion tourism, without regard for current law.”
President Joe Biden vowed that the first bill he will send to Congress after the midterm elections will be to “restore Roe.” At a speech to the Democratic National Committee, the self-described “Catholic” president said his first priority will be to codify into federal law the so-called “right to abortion” for any reason up to the moment of birth. CatholicVote President Brian Burch replied: “We need Church leaders to step up and make clear that no Catholic can support candidates or policies that would make America one of the most extreme abortion nations in the world.”
The Justice Department has charged yet another pro-life activist with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act: Herb Geraghty, an activist from the same pro-life group that discovered preemie-sized aborted babies’ remains outside a Washington, D.C., abortion facility in March of this year. The felony “conspiracy” charge stems from an October 2020 incident in which Geraghty blocked the facility’s entrance.
Bloomberg News is reporting that the Biden administration plans to release another 10 to 15 million barrels of oil from the nation’s emergency stockpile. The news comes just 23 days before the midterm elections as Democratic candidates face increasingly negative polling and voters express frustration over high gas prices.
The Biden administration is expanding the range of taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” healthcare options available to federal employees starting next year. The Office of Personnel Management “continues to focus on ways our Carriers can improve access to gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse individuals,” the agency stated in a recent announcement about employee benefits.
President Biden at a Democratic fundraiser in New York said America has arrived at the brink of a nuclear holocaust under his leadership. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis,” Biden said, referring to the current tensions between the United States and Russia. He added that “we have a direct threat of the use of nuclear weapons if in fact things continue down the path they are going.”
President Joe Biden announced he is pardoning all prior federal offenses for simple marijuana possession. “Sending people to jail for possessing marijuana has upended too many lives — for conduct that is legal in many states,” Biden tweeted. “That’s before you address the clear racial disparities around prosecution and conviction.”
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, who claims to be a Catholic, said that college students need abortions in order to succeed in life. “Students need access to health care to thrive in school and in life, and that includes reproductive health care,” Cardona said.
The Biden administration on Friday touted the heroism of Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch, a Coast Guardsman who saved lives during Hurricane Ian in Florida. The White House publicized President Biden’s personal phone call to Loesch, praising the rescue worker’s heroism as an example of the administration’s excellence. Loesch, however, is one of the many slated to be kicked out for not complying with Biden’s own mandate that all members of the United States Armed Forces submit to COVID-19 shots.
President Biden during remarks at the White House on lowering health care costs raised eyebrows when he said, with visible anger: “How in God’s name do you look at that child knowing you can’t afford it, you don’t have the insurance, and no way of getting it … How do you undergo that? …It not only deprives that child of a healthy existence but it deprives a parent of their dignity.”
President Joe Biden this week claimed, incorrectly, that the Church does not oppose some abortions. He made the remark while commenting on a Republican proposal to restrict abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. “I happen to be a practicing Roman Catholic,” Biden said, “my Church doesn’t even make that argument.” “This may be the most outrageous thing Joe Biden has ever said,” CatholicVote President Brian Burch said. “Does Joe Biden think he knows more about abortion than the pope? More than our bishops? More than 2,000 years of Church teaching that abortion always ends the life of an innocent unborn child?”
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Julie Rikelman, President Biden’s nominee for a lifetime appointment on the First Circuit Appeals Court, about whether she would enforce the Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling that struck down Roe vs. Wade. Though Rikelman said she would, many remain skeptical since she was the career abortion promoter who argued on behalf of Jackson Women’s Health in the Dobbs case.
President Joe Biden confronted Russia in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the U.N. charter — no more important than the clear prohibition against countries taking the territory of their neighbors by force,” Biden said. “If nations can pursue their imperial ambitions without consequences, then we put at risk everything this very institution stands for.”
The Biden administration is expected to soon finalize a rule banning oil and gas leasing near a Native American historical site in New Mexico, despite heavy opposition from local indigenous leaders, who say the rule would prevent them from collecting royalties on their land. “We’re not destroying anything — we are Native Americans ourselves,” said Delora Hesuse, a Navajo Nation citizen who owns allotted land in the region. “It just seems like they are listening more to the environmentalist people.”
President Biden declared that he would send the U.S. military to engage in war with China if the communist country attacked Taiwan. The White House walked back his statement within hours. In the case of an “unprecedented attack” by China, U.S. Forces would be deployed to defend the Island, Biden said. Scott Pelley of CBS’s “60 Minutes” said that after the interview a White House official told the show that U.S. policy has not changed and they refused to say if the U.S. military would defend Taiwan.
Just weeks before the midterm elections, President Joe Biden told CBS’ 60 Minutes: “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it.” At the Detroit Auto Show, Biden noted: “If you notice, no one’s wearing a mask, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape.”
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to offer to abort the babies of veterans and eligible dependents “in cases of rape, incest and pregnancies that endanger the life or health of an individual,” the Military Times reported. “The move marks the first time VA physicians could perform abortions on federal property, even in states where it has been outlawed.”
A federal appellate court on Friday cited religious freedom to block the Biden administration from forcing doctors to perform abortions or “sex-reassignment” surgeries. “This ruling is a major victory for conscience rights and compassionate medical care in America,” said Joseph Davis, counsel at the legal group Becket. “Doctors cannot do their jobs and comply with the Hippocratic Oath if the government requires them to perform harmful, irreversible procedures against their conscience and medical expertise.”
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the $740,000,000,000 “Inflation Reduction Act” into law. During the signing ceremony, Biden called the new law “one of the most significant laws in our history.” Republicans have decried the legislation, pointing out that it empowers unelected bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service and arguing that it will lead to more inflation that would hurt the middle and lower classes most.
The Biden State Department has pledged a new taxpayer-funded grant to “promote greater social acceptance of LGBTQI+ persons” in Botswana, a small African country that is predominantly Christian. The administration identified “influential religious groups” as targets to lobby in its campaign. “This tactic is likely to harm U.S. relations with Botswana,” wrote Grace Melton of the Heritage Foundation. “The Batswana may not be so keen on U.S. pressure to change their religious beliefs and social mores.”
Jessica Swafford Marcella, deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), assured a United Nations committee that the Biden administration is working to make sure poor and minority women in the U.S. can abort their children. Asked by a U.N. official about the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, Marcella promised that President Biden and the HHS had “acted swiftly” to promote abortion travel and abortion “medicine.”
The White House has drafted a memo defending the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The report allegedly claims that the Trump administration’s 2020 agreement with the Taliban “empowered the Taliban” and “weakened our partners in the Afghan government.” Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disagreed. “The intelligence community got it right,” said McCaul. “The problem was the White House and … State Department putting their head in the sand, not wanting to believe what they were saying and therefore not adequately planning.”
Reps. Michael McCaul, R-TX, and Adam Schiff, D-CA, both panned the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “I certainly don’t think the withdrawal had to go as it did, and the loss of American lives during the withdrawal, and the degree to which it took months and months, and we continue to try to help people escape from Afghanistan, I think could have been handled differently,” said Schiff, who is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, spoke out against the Biden administration’s use of the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida. “[The Department of Justice] must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations,” Cuomo tweeted.
Bishop Robert Barron of of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, published an essay denouncing President Joe Biden’s stance on abortion as an affront to “both right reason and the explicit teaching of his Church.” Biden “claims that he objects to abortion, that he considers it morally wrong,” Baron writes. Nonetheless, the president “presses forward, advocating the most radical pro-abortion policy imaginable….”
The Biden administration is pressing the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to allow it to force doctors to perform abortions and “gender transition” surgeries against their conscientious objections. The court on Thursday heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by nearly 20,000 religious physicians challenging Biden’s new rule to that effect. Luke Goodrich, an attorney with the firm representing the doctors, says the judges seemed receptive to their arguments.
The Biden administration has declared monkeypox a national public health emergency. The declaration will give the federal government increased powers, such as the ability to contract with private vaccine manufacturers to speed the distribution of shots. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said “we urge every American to take monkeypox seriously and to take responsibility to help us tackle this virus.”
President Joe Biden signed a new executive order directing Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to use Medicaid funding to help women cross state lines and abort their babies. Becerra “shall consider actions to advance access to reproductive healthcare services, including, to the extent permitted by Federal law, through Medicaid for patients traveling across State lines for medical care,” the order states.
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday that the VA is planning to guarantee that women in the Armed Forces can abort their babies despite state pro-life laws and court rulings. “There are 300,000 women veterans of child-bearing age who rely on us for their reproductive health care,” McDonough said, adding, “we’re looking closely at that to ensure there’s no reduction in services to them and no risk to their lives as a result of these decisions.”
The Biden administration proposed a new rule that revises Section 1557 of The Affordable Care Act to add “sexual orientation and gender identity” and “reproductive health care services” including “pregnancy termination” to existing “protections against discrimination on the basis of sex.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have condemned the proposal, and others worry it will lead to a harshly discriminatory legal environment for healthcare workers of faith. The Catholic News Agency spoke with experts about the matter. Here are their thoughts.
The Biden Administration will complete a portion of the border wall in an area of Arizona that has become infamous for illegal traffic between the U.S and Mexico. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-AZ, announced that the Department of Homeland Security had agreed to the move in response to his pressuring the White House to secure the vulnerable spot. “I’m glad that the Department of Homeland Security has listened to Arizona and is going to close these gaps,” Kelly said.
In anticipation of another upcoming negative economic report, President Biden and several administration officials have been doing their best to reframe an expected recession – including by proposing a new definition of the word. “Officials say prolonged COVID-19 factors, coupled with the war in Ukraine, have muddied economic projections and claim that assessing the speed of the post-pandemic economic recovery means examining a variety of economic signals, not just total GDP,” the Daily Wire reported.
Assistant Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a man who claims to be a woman, told an interviewer that public policy should facilitate sex changes for children. “Trans” children are “suffering politically motivated attacks” on the state level, Levine said, but officials should “empower these youth, not limit their participation in activities in sports and even limit their ability to get gender-affirmation treatment in their state.
The Biden administration warned pharmacies that they will be liable under federal anti-discrimination law if they do not provide abortion-causing drugs. Pro-life leaders are pushing back, arguing that the administration is violating pharmacists’ conscience rights. In addition, the move would inappropriately supersede “state laws that protect women and children from these dangerous drugs,” said CatholicVote President Brian Burch.
The Department of Justice announced that it is deploying a new “Reproductive Rights Task Force” to promote and defend abortions all across America. The team, chaired by Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, will also “include members from the Civil Rights Division, U.S. attorney community, Office of the Solicitor General, [and the] Office of the Attorney General, among others,” reports Madeline Leesman.
President Joe Biden announced that he would defy the Supreme Court and state lawmakers by signing an executive order to federally “protect” and “expand access to” abortion. The Biden administration claimed in a briefing that the “only way” to secure women’s rights is through protecting Roe vs. Wade as “federal law.” The same memo argued that the Supreme Court’s June 24, 2022 ruling striking down Roe vs. Wade stripped women of their rights “to privacy, autonomy, freedom, and equality.”
The Biden administration’s Department of Justice brought a lawsuit against Arizona over the state’s law requiring residents to prove their United States citizenship in order to vote in presidential elections. Gov. Doug Ducey, R-AZ, signed the law, making it harder for non-citizens to illegally vote for a presidential candidate, and also requiring voters to provide proof of address.
President Biden called on the Senate to make an “exception” to the filibuster to ensure that abortion is legal in all 50 states. During his speech to the NATO Summit in Madrid, Biden said: “We have to codify Roe v. Wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the Congress votes to do that. Currently, the filibuster prevents the Senate from passing legislation without a 60-seat super majority.
President Joe Biden reacted to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, calling it “extreme” and an “attack” on women’s rights. He called on Congress to codify the so-called “right” to abort babies into federal law. He also directed theDepartment of Health and Human Services to make abortion-inducing pills more available, and vowed to advocate for women who circumvent pro-life state laws by traveling to pro-abortion states to abort their babies.
The Biden administration acknowledged that it is planning ways to thwart the outcome of the Supreme Court if it were to strike down Roe vs. Wade and other pro-abortion legal precedents. “The administration continues to explore every possible option in response to the anticipated Supreme Court decision,” said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. “If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, we will need Congress to take action to restore Roe,” she added.
President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order to advance the LGBTQ movement’s goals, including among children in schools. The order directs the Department of Health and Human Services to instruct all healthcare providers receiving federal funding on how to treat transgender patients. The Department of Education will similarly impose pro-trans directives on schools throughout the country. In addition, the order forbids so-called “conversion therapy,” a catch-all term for medical and educational advice that does not “affirm” transgenderism or homosexuality.
U.S. Border Patrol agents are contending not only with a worsening crisis of illegal border crossings, but also with a grave lack of morale. A number of agents told an interviewer that they blame President Biden. “Under Biden, things are the worst they have ever been by far,” said one. “Agents are calling in all the time. You always hear, ‘It doesn’t matter,’ or, ‘What’s the point?’ in reference to doing our job. Agents are afraid of ending up on the news for doing their job or getting in trouble for doing their job. There is no morale.”
Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Diocese of Arlington, which covers Northern Virginia and borders Washington, D.C., called President Joe Biden to repent of his unbending promotion of abortion. “I find it very troubling that President Biden continues to contradict the most basic teachings of the faith he professes,” Burbidge said. “This is causing great scandal when he announces both his faith and his pro-abortion position publicly. I pray that he will change his position, repent of the scandal and the damage that is being caused.”
The Biden administration could terminate thousands of Border Patrol agents for not submitting to COVID shots, despite agencies on the border struggling to manage the gravest illegal migration crisis in national history. A court decision that may allow the Biden administration to begin firing the border officers. One agent told the Washington Examiner that “dozens and dozens” of his colleagues have already applied for early retirement over the threat of the Biden vax mandate.
The Biden administration announced over a year ago that it would address the border crisis by solving its “root causes” with aid to Central America. Today, however, a number of high-dollar projects initiated by the Biden plan have been scrapped due to corruption among South American government officials. “In one striking example, theU.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) abruptly suspended an undisclosed amount of funding tied to Guatemala’s justice ministry in July 2021 after the firing of a special prosecutor targeting corruption days earlier,” reports Reuters.
The Biden administration threatens to pull federal funding for lunches to schools unless they allow biological males to enter girls’ bathrooms and compete in girls’ sports. “Joe Biden has threatened to take away children’s school lunch money to pursue his radical agenda,” says Gov. Kristi Noem, R-SD. “He’s targeting states like ours that make it clear biological men do NOT belong in girls’ bathrooms and sports. If you act on this, Joe, we’ll see you in court and we will win.”
Data from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the U.S. illegal immigrant population has surged 10%, growing from 10.2 million to 11.6 million between when President Joe Biden took office and April 2022. “This means that illegal immigrants accounted for some 1.35 million (about two-thirds) of the two million growth in the total foreign-born population since President Biden took office,” the Center for Immigration Studies reports.
The Biden administration implements a rule change that will tie federal education funding to pro-LGBTQ policies and mandates. Under the new rule, Title IX protections against sexual discrimination will also apply to “discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.” The rule will make funding for a broad array of programs hinge on compliance with the LGBTQ agenda, from school lunch programs to FAFSA and Pell grants.
President Joe Biden tells reporters that he would deploy the U.S. military to defend Taiwan if China were to try to take the island by force. “Are you willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan, if it comes to that?” a reporter asked. “Yes,” Biden said. “That’s a commitment we made … the idea that – that it could be taken by force, just taken by force, is just not – is just not appropriate.” A White House official later told the press that the U.S. policy toward China “has not changed.”
U.S. Air Force Academy spokesman Dean Miller announces that three graduating cadets “will not be commissioned into the United States Air Force as long as they remain unvaccinated.” A fourth cadet had refused to submit to the shot until graduation neared this year. The cadet relented in order to receive a commission. Miller “added that a decision on whether to require the three to reimburse the United States for education costs in lieu of service will be made by the secretary of the Air Force,” the Associated Press reported.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday joined pro-abortion politicians, activists, and abortionists in a live-streamed video conference from the White House. During the meeting, Harris used heated rhetoric, referring to the politics surrounding abortion as a “war” and decrying pro-life legislation as “outrageous” and “extreme.”
New Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data shows that migrant encounters at the southern border hit a record high. “There were 234,088 migrants encountered at the Southern border in April, …the highest number in DHS history,” reports journalist Bill Melugin. The news comes just ahead of the Biden administration’s planned rescission of Title 42, a policy that is currently used to expel illegal border crossers. A total of 96,908 migrants were “expelled via Title 42” in April 2022 alone, Melugin reported.
The Biden administration cancels U.S. oil and gas production lease sales in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. The move comes amid mounting bipartisan criticism of the administration for allegedly hampering American fuel production while consumer prices soar. “As of Thursday morning, the national average price of a gallon of regular gas stood at $4.418, according to AAA — the highest on record and $1.41 higher than at this time last year,” the New York Post reports.
Whistleblowers reveal that the FBI opened multiple investigations into parents who protested education policies they believed harmful to their children, including one father who complained against mask mandates. The news comes after it was discovered that Biden administration officials solicited a letter from the National School Boards Association asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate concerned parents for potential “domestic terrorism” under the Patriot Act.
The Biden administration runs ads in Guatemala and Honduras designed to discourage mass illegal migration into the United States, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “The fact is that entering the United States illegally is a crime,” CBP said in a statement. “The ads highlight smugglers, known as ‘coyotes,’ who take advantage of and profit from vulnerable migrants.”
Senate Republicans succeed in blocking a Democrat-led bill designed to mandate abortion on demand through all nine months in all 50 states. The so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” needed 60 votes to advance. Forty-nine Democrats voted yes, while West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin joined all 50 Republicans in voting no. President Biden immediately condemned Republicans for blocking the bill, which the U.S. Bishops have decried as the worst abortion legislation in history.
Major retailers Target, CVS, and Walgreens impose baby formula purchasing limits to prevent hoarding as out-of-stock rates for the product soared to 31% nationwide. In several states, including Delaware, Montana, and Texas, the rate is over 40%. The shortage has hit a crisis level, causing panic among parents across the country. Economists warn that the problem is not likely to improve in the short term.
President Joe Biden claims that the Roe v. Wade ruling “says what all basic mainstream religions have historically concluded” — that when human life begins in the womb is an unanswerable “question.” Biden, who claims to be Catholic, cited St. Thomas Aquinas to argue the point. In fact the Catholic Church condemns abortion at any stage from conception onward, and the U.S. bishops have explained that Aquinas “rejected abortion as gravely wrong at every stage, calling it a sin ‘against nature’ to reject God’s gift of life,” reports Katie Yoder of the Catholic News Agency.
Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine, a man who claims to be a woman, tells NPR that there is “no argument” among pediatricians “about the value and the importance of gender-affirming care.” Levine also dismisses the scientific arguments against the LGBTQ agenda for children: “The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide,” he said.
Nina Jankowicz, tapped by President Joe Biden to head up the administration’s new “Disinformation Governance Board,” once dismissed the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Jankowicz claimed the story was just a “Trump campaign product” in a tweet just before the 2020 election. She also suggested the story, now universally recognized as valid, was a “Russian influence op.
The Commerce Department announces that the economy shrank 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022 – the second consecutive quarter of contraction. Economists had predicted that the economy would expand by a modest 1.1%. President Biden says he is “not concerned” about recession.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) creates a “Disinformation Governance Board” to quash what the Biden administration deems to be false information online ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, according to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Mayorkas testified about the formation of the board at a meeting of the House Appropriations Subcommittee.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its decision to end Title 42, a move that both Republicans and Democrats have warned will lead to a dangerous influx of illegal migrants. Title 42 measures are the “only rules holding back a devastating flood of illegal immigration,” according to the Texas suit.
The Biden administration’s Justice Department sends a request to a federal appeals court, asking for the go-ahead to begin enforcing a federal employee vaccine mandate again. In the request, DOJ attorneys argued that the mandate is “justified by the serious ongoing harm to the public interest and to the government.”
The Labor Department released data Tuesday showing that the consumer price index (CPI), which measures what Americans pay for everyday items such as food and gas, has climbed the most dramatically in 41 years – up 8.5% from a year ago.
The Senate votes 53-47 to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Utah Republican Mitt Romney joined with Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, the two pro-abortion Republican senators, in voting to confirm Jackson. During her hearings, Jackson said she was unable to answer the question “What is a woman?” because she is “not a biologist.” Senate Republicans criticized Jackson for offering light sentences to people convicted for child pornography.
The Biden administration announces that it will be terminating the Title 42 public health policy that has been used by both the Trump and Biden administrations to expel migrants at the southern border. Republicans and some Democrats in Congress have warned that without the order, the already-worsening crisis at the border will explode in coming weeks. More than half of migrants who arrived at the southern border in February were returned due to Title 42.
The Biden State Department announces that the government will allow Americans to mark their gender as “X” instead of “M” or “F”. The “X” will signify an “unspecified or another gender identity,” explained Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who promised that the option will be available in other forms of documentation next year. Americans who wish to change gender on their passports will not need to provide any documentation to do so.
President Biden’s administration releases a series of documents encouraging “gender-reassignment” surgeries and hormone treatments for minors. The Health and Human Services Department details multiple treatments for “trans” adolescents, including: “’Top’ surgery – to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts” and “’Bottom’ surgery – surgery on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or other procedures.”
Twenty-one states sued the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other federal agencies over mandated masking on public transportation. The suit argues that the Federal mandate breaks State laws that ban such mandates. “If politicians and celebrities can attend the Super Bowl unmasked, every U.S. citizen should have the right to fly unmasked,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-FL, in a press release announcing the suit.
President Joe Biden tells the president of Poland that “we have in our southern border thousands of people a day literally, not figuratively, trying to get to the United States.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection forecasted that border officials will have encountered over 200,000 migrants by the end of March 2022, compared to 173,277 in March 2021.
An NBC News poll shows President Joe Biden at 40% approval, his lowest approval rating to date. Fifty-five percent of Americans disapprove of his job performance, according to the poll, and his support from women has dropped from 51% to 44%, while Hispanic support fell even more steeply from 48% to 39%. “On the issues, Biden is 30 points underwater on his handling of the economy, the most important issue according to poll respondents,” the Washington Examiner reported. “Biden also gets the most blame for inflation.”
The White House issues clarifications after several problematic, confusing, and alarming remarks by President Joe Biden during his trip to Europe. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” said Biden of Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a speech. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change,” an official later corrected. Biden at another point seemed to suggest he was deploying soldiers to fight in Ukraine, forcing a White House official to clarify that “we are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine….”
“The United States is announcing plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia’s aggression through the full range of legal pathways, including the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program,” the Biden administration says in a statement. More than 10 million Ukrainians have been displaced since the start of the Russian invasion.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-MO, grilled Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson over her record of offering shorter sentencing terms for those convicted of possessing child pornography. He cited one case in which Judge Jackson sentenced an 18-year-old defendant to three months in federal prison for possession of child pornography despite the government requesting 24 months.
President Biden’s Surgeon General Vivek Murthy expresses his opposition to Florida’s newly-passed Parental Rights in Education law, which prohibits discussions about gender identity and sexual orientation with children in kindergarten through third grade classrooms. The law raises “serious concerns,” Murthy claimed. “And it sends a signal to LGBTQ+ youth that they are not fully accepted.”
President Biden vows to veto a Republican-backed resolution that would end his federal transportation mask mandate. The Senate passed the measure to scrap the mandate in a bipartisan 57-40 vote. It is unclear if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will allow a vote on the resolution. Half of the eight Democratic senators voting for the resolution are up for reelection in 2022.
The House approved a $1.5 trillion bill that sets new federal government spending levels and funds agencies through October. With no customary pro-life protections against taxpayer funding for abortion, the bill is a massive boon to the abortion industry. “This is the most radically pro-abortion administration in history,” said Rep. Jim Banks, R-IN, ahead of the vote, adding that the bill would “send millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood, which the vast majority of Americans oppose.”
In a leaked recording, top Biden administration scientist Francis Collins defended as “moral and beneficial” the use of aborted babies’ scalps, livers, and other body parts for science experiments. The former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director and current science adviser to President Joe Biden describes himself as a devout Christian. While he said he is personally “troubled” by abortion, Collins added: “After all, pregnancy termination is, at the present time, legal in the United States. Whether you’re in support of it or not, it’s happened…”