White House: Biden has confidence in FBI Director Wray, will let him stay on
The new White House spokesman Jen Psaki clarified on Thursday (21) that President Biden has confidence in the current FBI director Christopher Wray and plans to keep him in his post.
The FBI director’s tenure is 10 years, meaning that regime change will not affect his stay.
The company’s first press conference on Wednesday (20), for the media asked Christopher Wray will continue to serve as director of the FBI, did not give a clear answer, only said not yet discussed this with Biden. On Thursday, Psaki clarified in a social media post that Biden has confidence in Christopher Wray’s work and intends to let him stay on.
Netizen Titanic commented: first, pressed the Hunter Biden computer door case for nearly a year; second, negative confrontation with Trump‘s election investigation fraud. The FBI director Ray, who fought in the heart of the enemy, is a great credit to Biden.
For congressional seats, Biden signed an executive order 2020 census must include illegal immigrants
On January 20, Biden issued an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to include illegal immigrants in the baseline data for congressional seat assignments.
According to the executive order signed by Biden, the Secretary of Commerce “shall report aggregate population tables by State to reflect the total resident population in each State as of the date of the census specified in section 141(a) of title 13, United States Code, without regard to immigration status.”
“In addition, the Secretary of Commerce shall use the population tables to reflect the total number of persons ordinarily resident in each State as of the date of the Census. Immigration status is not considered in reports to governors and officials, or to public agencies responsible for legislative allocations or subdivisions in each state.”
The new order does not outline a deadline for the Census Bureau to release the data, and it is unclear when the bureau will have the sub-seat data ready.
The move comes after former President Trump tried to exclude foreigners and won a lawsuit in the Supreme Court.
In the U.S., congressional seats are allocated based on the population of each state, with more seats going to states with larger populations.
U.S. Businesses Oppose Biden’s Minimum Wage and Corporate Tax Hikes, Warn of Protest
U.S. business leaders warned that they are prepared to fight Biden’s measures to raise corporate taxes, tighten regulations and double the federal base hourly wage.
World Journal reported that Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (USCC), warned that the timing is not right to further test corporate resilience by raising corporate taxes or introducing new regulations that would do more harm than good, at a Time when the economic recovery is at its most fragile, and that USCC members will use all the tools at their disposal to fight overregulation.
Help Biden on Inauguration Day? WHO says high chance of false-positive virus tests in China
On Wednesday (20), Biden’s U.S. presidential inauguration day, the World health Organization (WHO) issued an updated notice warning medical professionals to follow instructions for PCR testing methods for the Chinese Communist virus to avoid getting false-positive results.
The notice is a wonderful gift to the newly launched Biden Administration. A positive nucleic acid test by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) has been the primary indicator of a clinically confirmed diagnosis of the CCP virus. If PCR testing leads to false positives, it means that the now huge number of CCP pneumonia cases will be alleviated and this number will begin to decline.
A big problem for former President Trump, whose handling of the CCP virus pandemic has been criticized by his detractors, is the continued increase in the number of CCP pneumonia cases. However, if many of these cases were identified with PCR tests that turned out to be false positives, that would mean that the number of cases for which Trump has been criticized is not the actual number.
Some of Trump’s supporters believe that the impact of the CCP pandemic was exaggerated in the run-up to the 2020 election and Biden’s inauguration in order to damage Trump’s reputation. While such claims have not been substantiated, the latest WHO notification is likely to give wider acceptance to these arguments.
Democrats want 51 votes to pass proposal, Senate talks stalled, Biden cabinet nominee faces challenges
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is pictured attending President Biden’s Inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20.
The number of bipartisan votes in the new Senate has become a 50-to-50 tie, with the vice president having a key vote; however, Republicans will continue to chair key committees and have the power to set the agenda amid stalled, inconclusive negotiations on a power-sharing agreement between the two parties.
This means that incoming President Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees could face a bumpy road ahead.
What is a power-sharing agreement? It’s when the two parties in the Senate reach an agreement on the number of seats each will hold on each Senate committee. In the absence of an agreement, the Senate would operate under the same rules as the previous Congress, meaning that the Republican-controlled Senate majority would be carried over from the previous term, with Republicans remaining as committee chairs.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are discussing a power-sharing agreement, but the two are at an impasse over retaining and repealing existing “Filibuster” rules.
“Filibuster is the right of individuals in the chamber to prolong debate or block proposals, often delaying the event of a vote on a bill and paralyzing the proceedings.
In 1917, the Senate introduced the ability to end debate, which has been amended several times to require an absolute majority of two-thirds of the entire Senate or more to end debate.
In 2013, in response to the partisan gridlock that has often plagued Congress during the Obama administration, the Senate changed this long-standing rule, changing the number required to end debate from an absolute majority – two-thirds – to a 60-seat (three-fifths) majority, effectively ending the minority party’s power to use delaying tactics to block passage of most presidential nominees.
In 2021, the Senate is tied 50-50, and will always need to pull at least 10 votes from the other side to pass a bill if it is to avoid lengthy proceedings.
Democratic leader Schumer is prepared to lower the “lengthy proceedings” rule again, lowering the threshold for advancing the bill to a simple majority of 51 votes. Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is demanding that Democrats agree to retain the existing 60-vote threshold for “lengthy proceedings” or refuse to reach a power-sharing agreement.
Privately, a handful of Democrats said they were wary of making changes to the Senate’s “lengthy proceedings,” leaving outsiders wondering whether the party has the votes to eliminate the provision. In the current situation, even if the Democrats pull in three major Republican senators of the swing, but it is difficult to reach the threshold number of 60 votes.
But in the absence of a deal, the only way to get things done in the Senate at this point is still through a Republican-chaired committee, or through a unanimous consent motion to bring a nominee or bill directly to the full House, though the unanimous consent principle means that any one senator can block the action.
Trump’s cabinet nominees did not complete certification until April 27 of the same year, when the Senate’s majority was Republican, but was similarly strenuously blocked by Democrats and led to one nominee dropping out midway through the process.
Recent Comments