USA TODAY asked experts across the U.S. for their best guesses on the potential impacts of Biden’s climate plan, which has big ideas but few details. ...
Joe Biden is inheriting a weak recovery. Growth is expected to pick up quickly as the vaccines are widely distributed, but getting 10 million people back to work is likely to take longer....
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced members of his climate change team Saturday, and said his administration would focus on rebuilding the economy through efforts to reduce emissions....
Susan Rice, who was President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, will lead the Domestic Policy Council. Denis McDonough, Mr. Obama’s chief of staff, was nominated secretary of veterans affairs....
He may have selected a cabinet that looks like America, but the president-elect’s picks are just business as usualJoe Biden, you may have heard, is hiring a lot of women. During his campaign, he promised to appoint the most diverse cabinet in American history. So far,...
As Congress continues to argue over the size of a new stimulus package, unemployment fell to 6.7%The recovery in the US jobs market collapsed in November as cases of Covid-19 hit new records, government figures revealed on Friday.The US added just 245,000 new jobs in...
The president-elect plans to deliver remarks from Wilmington, Del., hours after the Labor Department releases a report expected to show slowed job growth amid the rise in coronavirus cases....
Just below the surface of Biden’s tightly scripted recent events, tensions are beginning to simmer as different Democratic factions jockey for jobs. ...
Trump wants to bring back a corrupt system of political patronage. Congress and Joe Biden must undo this attack on the capability of our government. ...
President-elect Joe Biden introduced his diverse foreign policy team Tuesday, sharing personal anecdotes to describe sometimes esoteric assignments. ...
Biden is filling out his West Wing even as Trump continues to dispute the results of the Nov. 3 election with lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan. ...
Before you vote for president this Election Day, here’s a look at who would recover jobs lost during the COVID-19 pandemic quicker – Trump or Biden. ...
While the candidate travels the country in the campaign’s final weekend, various groups are vying for posts in a potential Biden administration, knowing the posts would determine the direction of his presidency....
The president vowed to help the industry, but it continues shrinking despite his cuts to regulationsArt Sullivan is considered something of a political heretic by other coalminers in south-western Pennsylvania, where a wave of support for Donald Trump based upon his...
Trump is making false claims about his record in struggling states like Ohio and Michigan. The jobs haven’t come back. They’ve been offshored to China. ...
Before sketching out a plan to keep more jobs in the United States, the former vice president denounced his rival over revelations in a new book that the president knowingly minimized the coronavirus’s dangers....
Biden wants to raise taxes, boost spending to recover jobs lost in pandemic. Trump wants more cuts to taxes, regulations and more tariffs on China. ...
Gin makers have warned the Government it has just days to stop Donald Trump hitting their exports with crippling tariffs, which they say would see a major fall in sales across the Atlantic....
The presumptive Democrat presidential nominee is picking a path through the perilous politics of the economy and the climate crisisFaced with a disgruntled climate voter during the primary season who wanted him to be tougher on the oil and gas industry, Joe Biden shot...
The plan is part of a broader economic agenda called “Build Back Better,” which deals with infrastructure and clean energy, care-giving and the workforce, and racial equity. ...
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s response to the recent jobs report stood in stark contrast to President Trump’s earlier praise of the results....
President Donald Trump bragged about the ‘largest monthly job gain in the history of our country’ in a hastily arranged public appearance after the unemployment rate fell to 11.1%....
Two new jobs reports likely will paint a good news-bad news picture, the Gang of Eight will get Russia briefing and more news to start your Thursday. ...
The president’s comments on Mr. Floyd, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, were immediately criticized by Joseph R. Biden Jr., his Democratic opponent....
Biden, the former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee, accused Trump of ‘spiking the ball’ when millions are still unemployed or suffering....
The president has been the driving force behind the shift — declining to wear a mask, dismissing the threat of a second wave and pushing governors to reopen their economies right away....
We’re set to get our worst jobs report since the Great Depression on Friday, and presidents facing that kind of economic strife generally lost. Here’s why this situation may be different....
John Ratcliffe and Brian Miller will both hold some sway over novel coronavirus decision-making, if confirmed to the DNI and inspector general jobs....
President Donald Trump accused Democrats of causing people to lose their jobs as the two sides battle to replenish a program to buoy small businesses shuttered by the coronavirus....
First Daughter Ivanka Trump joined her father at a White House event for small business Tuesday, where the president made the astonishing claim she had created 15 million jobs....
President Trump ignored Thursday’s devastating jobs numbers and instead launched an attack Chuck Schumer, who he charged was ‘complaining’ about supply shortages in New York....
Arms sales to Middle Eastern allies that were meant to shore up American jobs are supplying the bombs that have killed thousands of civilians in Yemen. How responsible is the U.S. government?...
Buoyed by his acquittal in the impeachment trial, Trump is installing some of his most loyal followers to top White House jobs, and culling others. ...
With impeachment behind them and an eye on November, Democrats appear to have decided that focusing on President Trump’s norm-shattering words and deeds only elevates him....
