President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address March 7, 2024, to a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol.
Some Republicans called out Biden from the floor. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., challenged Biden over the murder of Laken Riley, a University of Georgia nursing student. An immigrant in the country illegally has been charged in Riley’s death.In forceful terms, Biden framed himself as a protector and defender of Americans and their prosperity, touting pocketbook policies to ease
It aimed to change what happened when people reached the border, but that doesn’t mean people would stop showing up. Despite the emergency authority, the government’s ability to quickly remove people from the U.S. would still hinge on its resources, and other countries’ willingness to take back immigrants.
Trump wasn’t directly inviting Russia to do whatever it wanted to NATO allies. He was telling a story during a rally in South Carolina about what he said to an unnamed ally years ago. Trump claimed he was tough on NATO and got results, misrepresenting several facts about the alliance and his record in the process.Feb. 10."NATO was busted until I came along. I said, ’Everybody’s gonna pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.
"I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa." Trump also said,"It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here. But, ah, have to get over it, we have to move forward, we have to move forward.
In December 2023, seven countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — Canada, Denmark, Italy, Latvia,Lithuania, the Netherlands and South Korea — had inflation rates lower than the U.S’. The labor market has been a strength for Biden during his watch. And the Conference Board survey shows that consumer sentiment is now higher than it was under three of the previous four presidents at this point in their tenures.between 2021, Biden’s first year in office, and 2022, his second year. That was a larger decline than any in any previous one-year span.