Questions tagged [joe-biden]
Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States. Biden was also Vice President under Barack Obama, and a Delaware Senator from 1973 to 2009. Use this tag with the [united-states] tag.
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Do either Biden or Harris currently support a public option for Obamacare?
In the 2020 Democratic Primaries, President Biden supported adding a public health insurance option to Obamacare, and Vice President Harris supported replacing Obamacare with Medicare for All. But ...
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Why do most Democrats think Obama did a better job than Biden? [closed]
This is based on the poll in this question.
Obama is perceived as the better president by many more Democrats than Clinton & Biden, in fact more Democrats think the Republican Reagan was a better ...
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Has the White House put out any statement about Biden dropping out?
I'm making a distinction here between the White House (WH) and Joe Biden himself. The WH, as an institution, may or may not be concerned with whom the next candidate is. I see in the realm of the ...
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Could Biden's supreme court reform ideas have any chance to happen, or is it empty talk to please his base? [closed]
Biden has been talking about Supreme court reforms, such as adding term limits and ethics restraints.
Some of them, like term limits, would almost certainly require a constitutional amendment. Other'...
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Why does the the Democratic Party want Biden to quit when he's not that far behind in the opinion polls? [closed]
Top Democratic Party faces are publicly asking Joe Biden to step down, apparently believing he won't win the election against Trump.
However, in reality, he is only 4 percentage points behind Trump, ...
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Does the Democratic Party have an alternative nominee to Joe Biden?
From what I understand, Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The Democratic Party will formally name its nominee this August at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Why call for Biden to step down now?
Why did the Democrats wait so long to start calling for Biden to step down for the next election? Why didn't they back another candidate during their primaries?
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How can persistently high US oil production be reconciled with goals to slow down global warming?
Global warming has accelerated in the last decade and even this year there were already quite some heat waves. For example over a thousand people died this year on the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca ...
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How can Joe Biden be removed as candidate for the election? [duplicate]
Just an hour into Thursday night’s presidential debate, Andrew Yang — a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate — called on Biden to step aside.
“Guys, the Dems should nominate someone else — before it’...
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Has Biden ever explained why he is running for president (2024)?
There've been several poll that suggest that Democrats would rather the party nominate someone else for president, e.g. this or this. There've also been indications that Americans as a whole would ...
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Is there evidence that Biden administration policies are encouraging undocumented immigration?
My question is similar to a closed one from five years ago, but I think it's worth revisiting and expanding on as a lot has changed since then. I'd also like to focus more narrowly on the actions of ...
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What did Biden mean by: if Israel did not exist, America would have to invent it?
Joe Biden said (source):
The State of Israel was born to be a safe place for the Jewish people of the world. That’s why it was born. I have long said: If Israel didn’t exist, we would have to ...
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Do critics/experts underestimate the performance of the Trump administration? [closed]
With current developments increasing the odds for a second Biden-Trump match-up, this question seems to becoming more relevant (especially for the future). U.S. politics contain so much bias, it is ...
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Why do Americans consider Biden to be too old for president, but not Trump?
A number of polls show that Americans by and large consider Joe Biden to be too old to be president.
For example, an Associated Press poll asked
Do you think each of the following is too old to ...
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Given there is no primary on the democratic side, why isn't there a push to get Democrat voters to vote Trump out in the primary?
Biden is the incumbent with no serious challenges.
Given his unpopularity with Democrats, why hasn't there been a campaign run by Democrats or maybe even some anti-Trump Republicans to get Democrat ...
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Does Biden's support for Israel align with popular opinion in the US?
Many Americans, including Jewish individuals, are reportedly protesting against the Israeli government's operation in Gaza. They cite harsh and inhumane conditions as reasons for their protest.
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How does the Biden Administration intend to keep humanitarian aid to Gaza out of the hands of Hamas?
President Biden announced that he was sending aid to the Gaza strip, and warned Hamas against taking said aid
President Biden on Thursday warned Hamas against diverting
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Why did Biden announce his visit to Israel in advance?
For context, high officials usually do not announce their state visits to conflict areas way in advance publicly due to security reasons. When Biden visited Ukraine, the visit was kept secret until ...
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What arguments support claims that the Biden Administration used "threat and coercion" when telling social media that they "have to take speech down"?
In the July 6, 2023 PBS Newshour video Judge limits government's contact with social media companies after GOP states sue
after about 02:00, Host Amna Nawaz begins:
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What is the political stance of the Biden administration on the Right to Repair, and do its policies on it reflect that?
As an advocate for Right to Repair, I have been closely following the Right to Repair movement in the US. It seems to have reached a tipping point in America too, and more than 25 US states are ...
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Is the US support for Ukraine significantly because of Biden
Is US's position on Ukraine significantly the result of Biden himself?
On other questions, I keep reading assumptions - stated or not - that the US supports Ukraine only because Biden does.
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Do Republicans have specific objections about Hunter Biden and if so what are they?
Without being able to provide direct evidence, I recall here and there often seeing Republicans lambast Hunter Biden, son of Pres. Joe Biden.
The impression was a sense of scandal and social disgrace ...
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Did the Biden administration successfully terminate Trump’s Safe Third Country agreements?
In 2019, the Trump Administration signed asylum cooperative agreements, commonly known as “Safe Third Country” agreements, with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Under these agreements, those ...
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Did any people manage to get their student loans forgiven via Biden program before courts blocked it?
I tried Googling it, but it gave me irrelevant results.
Did any of the people at all who applied very first (during the beta rollout on that weekend) manage to get their applications processed and 10-...
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What is the limit of the weapons that President Biden can authorize sending to Ukraine?
President Biden announced that he will not send combat troops to fight in Ukraine.
That he does not want to have US armed men in the line of fire means that he also would not want to put US civilians ...
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Why does Biden administration want to ban some Chinese investment in US companies in the clean energy sector?
Based on https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/us/politics/biden-china-tech-executive-order.html
President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday designed to sharpen the federal government’s powers ...
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What happened in the Hunter Biden's laptop controversy?
Recently, I've read Donald Trump's latest quote on the story:
So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, ’...
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Why was American government's response so soft towards the Chinese government's very aggressive messages about Pelosi's Taiwan visit? [closed]
Recently the U.S. announced that Pelosi would be visiting Taiwan. The Chinese government threatened that if that happened, they would respond militarily. Xi even told Biden the following words: "...
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Does the POTUS Mr. Biden give gifts to his counterparts from other countries when meeting in international meets?
Recently, in G7 meeting, Modi of India gave various gifts to his counterparts.
I was wondering if POTUS Mr. Biden does the same?
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Has Biden taken any action to reform the Supreme Court?
President Biden established The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States to investigate ideas for reform of the Supreme Court. The commission first sat on May 19, 2021 and ...
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Why were Biden's remarks about Russian economy in his speech in Poland so inaccurate?
In March 26 speech in Warsaw Biden claimed that "it takes about 200 rubles to equal one dollar". In reality, the onshore USD/RUB closed at 96.0, whereas offshore USD/RUB closed at 102.29.
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Fact-based arguments for and against President Biden's plan to appoint a black female to the US Supreme Court as being like Affirmative Action [closed]
Wikipedia's Affirmative Action begins:
Affirmative action refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to include particular groups based on their gender, ...
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What are the dates of the "real" press conferences given by President Biden?
I recently read an article that claimed that President Biden as of the 7th of June 2021 had given only one "real" press conference, where the reporter defines a "real press conference&...
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Of the 111(+?) invitees to the Biden administration's Summit on Democracy, did any country decline or refuse to participate? If so, any reasons given?
This answer to Did the Biden administration have a working definition of democracy when it chose which countries to invite to its "democracy summit"? cites US government officials and ...
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Did the Biden administration have a working definition of democracy when it chose which countries to invite to its "democracy summit"?
The New York Times' Biden Rallies Global Democracies as U.S. Hits a ‘Rough Patch’
The president kicked off his summit as critics questioned the guest list and whether the United States could be an ...
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Biden's motorcade at COP26
I note https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/67418/did-the-us-presidential-motorcade-contravene-uk-traffic-regulations which states that the motorcade vehicles had American-style red emergency ...
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What is the difference between funds being "authorized" and funds being "appropriated" in the IIJA?
I'm currently trying to understand H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) but there are a few things don't understand.
Authorization vs. Appropriation
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Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill (IIJA) [closed]
I'm currently trying to understand H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) but there are a few things I don't understand:
The price tag:
People are referring to the bill as the $1....
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Why have Biden's approval polls consistently been dropping between August and October 2021?
Since around the start of August, President Biden's approval began to tank. According to 538, Biden's approval is currently at 43.8%. They recently wrote an article about how his approval is dropping ...
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US government arguing for A death sentence while arguing against THE death sentence; does US Supreme Court Justice Barrett have a point?
ABC News's Justices divide sharply on reinstating Boston Marathon bomber death sentence begins:
Reciting the gruesome details of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and its violent aftermath, an ...
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Has Biden held far fewer press interviews than Obama or Trump in an equivalent time period?
According to one CJR article:
Biden conducted far fewer interviews during his first months in office than Trump did: nine in his first hundred days, compared with fifty-one for Trump and forty-six ...
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What is the view of Joe Biden on having a balanced budget?
As mentioned here a balanced budget used to have a decent amount of support among the American people. What is the view of Joe Biden on having a balanced budget?
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Is the Australian right-wing media giving Biden any credit for AUKUS?
As far as I can tell from my limited sampling, the Murdoch-owned Australia press (e.g. Sky News Australia) is talking about Biden's mental capacity fairly constantly and not in a positive manner. It's ...
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Who are the White House staff member or members that are cutting off the President from taking questions?
Apparently President Biden is routinely cut off and prevented from taking questions from reporters by the White House staff who are never identified in these reports. Most recently this occurred ...
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Has President Joe Biden made any public statements on wanting to run for a second term?
Joe Biden, being older than any other serving US president in history, arguably has a more realistic option of simply retiring after a single term than his younger predecessors did
Has President Joe ...
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What has Biden's presidency done to improve US relations with Pakistan?
Biden is sometimes quoted (e.g. here or here) for this quip to (former Afghan president) Karzai that
Pakistan is fifty times more important than Afghanistan for the United States.
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Why hasn't Biden gotten a "rally round the flag" effect after Afghanistan?
One thing that surprised me about Biden's approval is the lack of a rally round the flag effect so far. It hovered around 50% on poll averaging sites which is where it was before. (In case you don't ...
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Why isn't Biden more popular? [closed]
In the past more moderate leaders get very high approvals. Joe Biden ran as a moderate and seems to be governing like one. Even today you have this effect happen at the local level. Charlie Baker the ...
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Why is the US asking OPEC about prices?
I've read an article on WSJ:
Yet his Administration is now imploring the OPEC oil cartel to pump more oil so U.S. gasoline prices don’t rise more than they already have on Mr. Biden’s watch.
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Why is Biden losing the support of non-white American Democrats?
Recently, I've read an article on Reuters (emphasis mine):
However, a growing number of Americans disapprove of Biden's leadership on the economy, gun violence and taxation, with the biggest decline ...
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