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Joe Biden has been reported to have the most expensive White House payroll in U.S. history. In its annual Staff Report to Congress on Thursday, the White House detailed salaries for all of its more than 500 employees. Biden’s staff will cost taxpayers nearly $50 million a year, which is approximately $10 million per year more than the Trump administration. Press Secretary Jen Psaki and 21 other aides topped the list by taking in the maximum salary of $180,000 dollars per year. Biden acted fast in comparison to his predecessors when staffing the White House with a noticeable influx in...

The White House on Monday blocked President Joe Biden from speaking with reporters about a signature administration effort on entitlements. The Biden administration kicked off a messaging push to promote the child tax credit, but Biden was not scheduled to speak to reporters. Families will begin receiving monthly payments in their bank accounts of $250 or more per child beginning in July, a massive entitlement program that comes as part of Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue plan. Biden was not part of the White House’s number one messaging strategy of the day. His daily schedule for Monday only featured a...

President Joe Biden’s top spokesperson said Tuesday that the first family’s German shepherds remained “beloved members” of the White House family amid reports that the two dogs had been relocated to Delaware following aggressive behavior from one of them. In an MSNBC interview Tuesday morning, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about a CNN report from earlier in the day that the dogs, Champ and Major, were back at the Bidens’ family home after a “biting incident” between Major, the younger of the two dogs, and a member of White House security. “I don’t have any specifics. I...

The Biden administration has declined to release virtual visitor logs for the White House after promising to do so during the 2020 campaign season. President Obama first instituted the practice of releasing visitor logs for the White House, but the Trump administration ceased doing so. While the current administration has made records of in-person visits to the White House available, it has declined to do so for virtual meetings. “For the sake of clarity—The Biden-Harris Administration will return to the policy of releasing White House visitor logs,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki wrote on Twitter on January 15. Psaki...

I guess the White House didn’t want President Biden to take questions… ================================================================= BIDEN: "I'm happy to take questions if that's what I'm supposed to do…" *White House feed cut* pic.twitter.com/y5BHhgXWOB — The First (@TheFirstonTV) March 3, 2021

The White House on Wednesday said it is considering a military response to a rocket attack on an air base in western Iraq that houses U.S. and coalition troops. At least 10 rockets struck Al Asad air base in Iraq's Anbar province earlier Wednesday, with a U.S. contractor suffering a heart attack during the bombardment and later dying. “We are following that through right now,” President Biden told reporters. “Thank God, no one was killed by the rocket. One individual, a contractor, died of a heart attack. But we’re identifying who’s responsible and we’ll make judgments.” White House press secretary...

During the 2020 campaign, candidate Joe Biden promised to undo President Donald Trump's border security policies. He pledged to halt all deportations for 100 days and allow asylum seekers who enter the United States illegally to stay in this country while their cases are considered, rather than wait in Mexico, as Trump required. It was obvious that Biden's changes would attract a flood of new illegal immigrants. So during the transition, the president-elect tried to lower expectations. In late December, Biden told reporters he would not throw out the Trump program immediately, lest the United States "end up with 2...