Biden news today: President jokes about ‘good old days’ with Obama as he pauses student loan debt for the sixth time

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mallorcas on Tuesday held a meeting with House Republicans from the Border Security Caucus but Republicans were “not satisfied with the answers.”

The border security suite was fully charged during the meeting — after an announcement last week that the White House would lift all Covid restrictions at the border under Trump.

“It was a tough crowd, and you had to give him a lot of credit for picking the toughest crowd, coming in and listening to them,” said Daryl Issa, a California Republican who attended the meeting.

“Nothing has really been resolved, other than his pledge to provide a number of follow-up information,” he said.

Representative Brian Papin of Texas, caucus co-chair of the meeting, said of the meeting: “We appreciated his courage in attendance, knowing we were 100 percent against him. But we weren’t satisfied with the answers he gave us.”

The United States is once again extending its pandemic-era moratorium on federal student loans, postponing the restart date until at least August 31, Associated Press reports.

This is the sixth time that the deadline for resuming payments has been extended, as Joe Biden faces pressure from Congress and inflation fears.

Before the extension, the freeze was set to expire on May 1, and more than 43 million Americans with $1.6 trillion in corporate loans would have defaulted again on their debt.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin seemed so angry about the questioning of Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz that he ended up in a screaming match with the Florida representative at the end of Gates’ five-minute tour.

Austin was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify at a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2023 budget request, but Mr. The Pentagon’s embrace of “waking up”.

Specifically, Gates inquired about a lecture given at the US National Defense University by French economist and writer Thomas Piketty entitled “Responding to China: The Case for Global Justice and Democratic Socialism.”

Republican actor Adam Kinzinger from Illinois called colleagues in Congress ‘Children’ to focus more on Disney and culture war issues fromGenocide“It is happening in Ukraine at the hands of Russia.

Mr. Kinzinger said that “world order” is being challenged for the first time since World War II, but his colleague Republicans They were behaving like a ‘group of kids’.

The Oklahoma condition House They voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that makes it a felony To perform miscarriage In the state punishable by up to 10 years in prison, in what is potentially the most restrictive anti-abortion law passed since the US Supreme Court first indicated its desire to curtail reproductive rights last year.

The law, which would punish any Oklahomaman who abort with a lengthy prison sentence and a fine of up to $100,000, passed the Senate last year before sailing into the statehouse by a margin of 70-14 on Tuesday.

She will become the first woman to command a branch of the US military if this is confirmed. Admiral Fagan has served as deputy commanding officer since June of last year, becoming the first woman to reach the rank of four-star admiral in the Coast Guard.

Gustav Killander reports from Washington, DC.

Rep. Dan Keldy summed up the mood on Capitol Hill to PoliticoSarah Ferris:

US Capitol Police She arrested a fox suspected of biting a congressman on the leg.

Police divided the animal after warning politicians and employees Capitol Hill To be on the lookout for “Aggressive Encounters with Foxes”.

Graeme Massey reports on one of the most unexpected stories to be released today in DC.

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Former President Barack Obama had a simple message for Democrats who worry about losing their majority in the 2022 midterm elections:

“We have a story to tell, we just have to tell it,” he said in response to NBC News’ Peter Alexander.

The former president received a standing ovation upon returning to the White House for the first time since leaving the Oval Office in 2017 to celebrate the twelfth anniversary of the passage of his health care bill, the Medicare Act, which earned him the nickname Obamacare in the press.

Eric Garcia reports from Washington, DC.

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