Author: Jarrett Renshaw
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Biden prepares to scale back spending plan under threat
WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden and his senior Democratic allies in Congress are preparing to lower their ambitions for a signature legislative achievement on their top social priorities. Faced with increasingly stiff odds of passing their $3.5 trillion social-spending proposal, Biden and his aides are trying to suss out what narrower proposal could unite an…
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Senate opposition leads White House to withdraw ATF nominee
WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden on Thursday withdrew his nomination of gun control advocate David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — a federal agency pivotal in his goal of lowering U.S. firearms violence — blaming Republican opposition. Chipman, who previously worked for the ATF for nearly 25 years, had…
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Biden to tell Israel PM he shares alarm over Iran but sticking to nuclear diplomacy
WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden will tell Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Thursday that Washington shares Israel’s concern that Iran has accelerated its nuclear program but remains committed for now to diplomacy with Tehran. Briefing reporters on their first face-to-face talks, a U.S. official said: “Since the last administration left…