Author: Joey Garrison, USA TODAY

Lacking passage of Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ plan, Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey were deprived a possible platform to run on.

One mayor said he views the directive more as ‘long-term programmatic changes’ and less about “Clinton-era ‘we’re just going to pay for more cops.'”

The White House is seeking $6.4 billion for Afghan resettlement one week after the U.S. ended ended its military effort in Afghanistan.

States and cities paid $1.7 billion in rental aid to landlords and renters in July, just a small increase from the $1.5 billion in June.

Biden’s approval rating was already on the decline as COVID-19 cases have surged. That was before the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan.

The Biden administration is urging states to use COVID-19 emergency funds if they want to extend the benefits on their own.

The White House says states have ways to get around a federal law that provides blanket immunity to gun manufacturers and dealers for gun crimes.

The White House has said only Congress, not the White House, can extend the evictions freeze after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

‘We cannot in good faith blame House Republicans when Democrats have the majority,’ New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday.