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What an incredible mess Joe Biden will be leaving for Donald Trump on Jan. 20. It isn’t just the $36 trillion in federal debt (up $13 trillion since 2020), which has increasingly (and foolishly) been financed by short-term borrowings; it is also inflation that refuses to die despite slumping energy prices, a Strategic Petroleum Reserve that has been drained to perilous levels, a weapons stockpile that is dangerously low, a Department of Justice that has lost the confidence of Americans, billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars that have been invested in losing enterprises (here’s looking at you, Intel), an educational...

Even White House staffers admit that President Biden’s advanced age is affecting his workload. Days after the 80-year-old formally announced he would run for re-election in 2024, Axios reported Friday that aides say it’s tough to schedule “public or private events” with Biden at certain times of day — namely weekends, mornings, and evenings. In fact, the report adds, most of Biden’s public events happen between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. That works out to a 30-hour workweek — even less than the official 35-hour workweek in France. So far this year, Biden has held just four events before 10...

Former US President Donald Trump lashed out at President Joe Biden at a campaign rally in New Hampshire, branding him "Crooked Joe Biden" and saying he poses a "threat to democracy", Fox News reported. "Joe Biden officially announced that he will seek four more disastrous years in the White House," Trump told the crowd of nearly 2,000 people in Manchester, New Hampshire, before vowing to "rescue America" from another four years of "disastrous" Democratic policies. "I will be retiring the name ‘Crooked’ from Hillary Clinton," Trump said. "And I’m going to give her a new name — I don’t know,...

President Joe Biden blamed Republicans in Congress for the mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, on Monday. A gunman fatally shot at least four victims and injured at least six others, including a police officer, at Old National Bank. Biden began his statement by expressing gratitude to the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officers “who quickly and courageously stepped into the line of fire to save others.” In his second paragraph, Biden blamed the mass shooting on Republican lawmakers not acting on gun reform. “How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities? It’s long...

When the United States said last year it would host the 2022 Summit of the Americas, officials had high hopes the event would help repair Trump-era damage to relations and reassert U.S. primacy over China's growing clout in Latin America. But on the cusp of the coming week's gathering in Los Angeles, U.S. President Joe Biden faces a struggle to make a success of a summit plagued by problems before it even began. Ideological discord over who to invite, skepticism about U.S. commitment to Latin America, and low expectations for major accords on issues such as migration and economic cooperation...

President Biden’s Secret Service detail rushed him to a safe house in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Saturday when a private plane violated the airspace above the vacation home he owns in the small seaside town. Local resident Susan Lillard spotted a small white aircraft flying over Biden’s neighborhood around 12:45 p.m. — a violation of the FAA airspace restrictions that are always called when the president is away from the White House. Minutes later, Lillard told CBS News, she saw two military-style jets scramble over the town.

Joe Biden’s handlers postponed his trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia on Friday. Biden was expected to visit the two countries to push the insane Iranian nuclear deal that both nations oppose. No reason was given for the delate. NBC News reported: President Joe Biden’s planned visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel later this month have been postponed until July, several officials told NBC News on Friday.

President Joe Biden ridiculed billionaire Elon Musk on Friday for expressing his doubts about the future of the economy. “Lots of luck on his trip to the moon,” Biden said. “I mean, I don’t know.” Biden was asked by reporters about Musk’s message to his subordinates at Tesla asking them to enact a hiring freeze at the company and cut ten percent of jobs, citing a “super bad feeling” about the economy.