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White House officials are upset with Vice President Kamala Harris for not defending the Biden-Harris administration’s record and President Joe Biden’s service during Tuesday’s debate, according to ABC News Senior White House correspondent Selina Wang. The reported frustration comes as Harris faces a conundrum due to the administration’s policy failures. Harris cannot campaign on policies to fix crime, inflation, and border security without undermining the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, but she must tout the administration’s policies to validate her record and candidacy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) uncovered records showing Rashad Robinson, the President of the George Soros-funded, far-left organization Color of Change, visited the Biden-Harris White House a whopping sixteen times and had four meetings with President Biden and four meetings with Vice President Harris, according to official White House visitor log records:

During an interview on Tuesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central” that took place before that night’s presidential debate, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby responded to a question on if Vice President Kamala Harris worked in lockstep with President Biden on the withdrawal from Afghanistan by stating that “she was at the center of” “the policy discussions and the planning that went into the withdrawal,” “as she would be as Vice President.” Co-host John Berman read from the House Republican report on Afghanistan and asked, “The idea of Harris working in lockstep with President Biden on the Afghan...

In the leadup to Tuesday night's presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, a separate debate is occurring in Washington over who was at fault for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. During a Monday afternoon press briefing, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby spoke to reporters about the 2021 withdrawal, and argued that Biden's hands were tied by policies of the previous administration. "The Trump administration cut a deal called the Doha Agreement that mandated a complete U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan," Kirby said. "And, yes, that included Bagram Air Base by...

Vice President Kamala Harris “has been a critical partner” in the administration’s policy decisions, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. The statement ties Harris to the administration’s failures. Under the Biden-Harris administration, costs soared about 20 percent across the board, migrant crime spiked, illegal immigrants invaded the southern border, Russia invaded Ukraine, and 13 U.S. troops died during the Afghan withdrawal. The statement also puts pressure on Harris’s debate performance set for Tuesday, as she will likely try to present herself as the agent of change. Democrats believe Harris must admit to the failures of the administration...

A prominent anti-Israel group, funded by George Soros's Open Society Foundations, has secured significant access to the Biden administration, with over 60 visits to the White House since President Biden took office. These meetings have drawn attention due to the organization's controversial stances and connections, fueling concerns about its influence on U.S. Middle East policy. The group in question, Emgage, advocates for pro-Palestinian causes and has close ties with left-wing Democrats like Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Summer Lee (D-PA). Emgage’s CEO, Wa’el Alzayat , a former State Department official under Obama, has visited the White House 24 times since...

White House press secreatry Karine Jean-Pierre has “no idea” about Vice President Kamala Harris’s use of a southern-fried drawl she occasionally deploys on the campaign trail. Harris, who hails from California and has black and Indian heritage, deploys a southern-fried accent during speeches in certain areas of the nation. The accent raises concerns about Harris’s sincerity. Voters are often attuned to inauthenticity in politicians. “Since when does the Vice President have what sounds like a Southern accent?” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre in Tuesday’s press conference.

The $400 billion federal clean-energy lending program that has faced criticism for moving too slow is stepping up efforts to push cash out the door before the election. The Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office was turbocharged by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, which gave it hundreds of billions of dollars to lend to clean-energy businesses. So far, it has only used a tiny fraction of that capacity. Biden administration officials fear that if Donald Trump is elected, the office would stop making loans. The program was largely dormant while Trump was president. “The election is everything,” said Adam Forgie, the...

Former President Donald Trump has the edge over Vice President Kamala Harris in a close race for the White House, according to a pair of polls published Thursday. Harris has a more challenging road to the White House than Trump when considering the polls–one from Emerson College/Nexstar Media and another from Fabrizio Ward & Associates– and deeper themes stirring both nationally and in the individual states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. For instance, one essential theme to consider is Trump regularly outperforms the polls: In the post-Democratic National Convention (DNC) August 25-28 Emerson College poll,...

The White House is “deeply concerned” about reports of civilian deaths in Gaza related to Israel striking a school in Gaza City that killed at least 80 people, saying the strike “underscores the urgency of a ceasefire.” “We are deeply concerned about reports of civilian casualties in Gaza following a strike by the Israel Defense Forces on a compound that included a school,” NSC spokesperson Sean Savett wrote in a statement to The Hill. “We are in touch with our Israeli counterparts, who have said they targeted senior Hamas officials, and we are asking for further details.

Emergency trucks pulled up to the White House gates on Friday evening. Multiple entrances to the White House were blocked off, according to NBC News reporter Selina Wang. The Secret Service told NBC: “It is a routine closure to investigate a suspicious item.” No other details about the ‘suspicious item’ were provided. VIDEO: Emergency trucks just pulled up outside the White House gates Multiple entrances to the White House have been blocked off Update from U.S. Secret Service: "It is a routine closure to investigate a suspicious item." Biden is in DE. Harris in AZ pic.twitter.com/Pe72uPPRFW — Selina Wang (@selinawangtv)...

The White House said Wednesday it is as “as close” as it has ever been to reaching a cease-fire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas. “There is a good proposal before both sides, and they need to both accept that proposal so we can get this in place,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. “We are as close as we think we have ever been.” Kirby added that gaps have narrowed in the negotiations and the U.S. believes a deal can be reached, though he did not offer a timeline. The gaps are related to...

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle wanted to destroy the cocaine evidence found in the Biden-Harris White House last summer. The Secret Service concluded its investigation into the cocaine scandal that rocked the White House last July – and surprise, surprise! No suspect was identified. According to CNN, the cocaine was “found in a blind spot for surveillance cameras.” No fingerprints, DNA samples, or leads! A baggy of cocaine was discovered in the West Wing after Hunter Biden visited the White House in early July 2023. At first, it was reported that the cocaine was found in the Library. Then...

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby acknowledged that keeping Iran from getting nuclear weapons capability through diplomacy “hasn’t worked.” After playing video of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussing a resolution he put forward to authorize military force by the U.S. to prevent a nuclear breakout by Iran, co-host Dana Perino asked, [relevant exchange begins around 3:25] “Has President Biden actually ever ruled that out?”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the 2024 presidential race makes its turn into the final stretch, the White House assured journalists that they would only have to pretend Kamala Harris is likable for a couple more months. Members of the media, weary from the exhausting duty of portraying Harris as capable, experienced, qualified, and decent, were relieved to find out that they would only have to maintain the ruse until election day. "Don't worry, you don't have to do this forever," one White House insider told reporters. "We just have to make people think she's a bright, likable person until they...

President Donald Trump has warned that the White House is currently being run by a group of “fascists, communists,” and “Marxists.”“I’m the opposite of a threat to democracy — they’re a threat to democracy,” Trump said of Democrats during an interview with Laura Ingraham on her Fox News show.“I mean, look at what they just did.”Trump said on “The Ingraham Angle” that Democrats participated in a “coup” by replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the 2024 ticket. He noted that the Democrat elite undemocratically selected Vice President Kamala Harris months after millions of primary voters cast their ballots....

The White House publicly urged Israel on Monday to exercise restraint in response to the rocket attack from Lebanon over the weekend that killed 12 children and teenagers in an Israeli-controlled town, warning against an escalation that could lead to a wider regional war. “Israel has a right to defend itself — no nation should have to live with this kind of threat,” John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, told reporters. At the same time, “we believe that there is still time and space for a diplomatic solution,” he said, adding, “Nobody wants a...

President Joe Biden hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Thursday, likely marking the last time the two leaders will meet while both are in office, given Biden’s decision not to run again. Biden had denied Netanyahu a White House meeting for nearly a year after the latter won Israel’s elections in November 2022 — an extraordinary snub, motivated by the antipathy Democrats have for Israel’s statesman. They finally met in New York in September 2023, amid talk of a possible Saudi-Israeli peace deal that would have been a major diplomatic accomplishment for Biden. But the...

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President Biden will be back at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since he announced he was abandoning his re-election campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. Biden is scheduled to leave his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — where he had been recovering from COVID-19 — in the afternoon and arrive at the Executive Mansion by 2:30 p.m., according to his schedule. The 81-year-old president was originally expected to leave the beach town, where he had been under quarantine, on Monday to hit the campaign trail, but he extended his stay after announcing that he was...