Independent West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said that President Biden had a blind spot to inflation, something he tried warn the president about early in 2021.

A video clip of President Joe Biden asking members of the Boston Celtics: "You're Celtics, right?" during a White House event has gone viral on social media. The eight-second clip, shared on X by the account RNC Research,

Republican President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet have included some historic firsts, though women and people of color make up less of the overall number than they did when Democratic President Joe Biden first took office.

President Biden is making a last-ditch effort to cancel more student debt before the end of his term, one of his final attempts to erase the loans after facing years of setbacks.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) claimed he and President Joe Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan are “are hand in glove,” collaborating on national security issues during the transition. “Jake Sullivan and I have had discussions, we’ve met,” Waltz said on Fox News Sunday. “For our adversaries out there that think this is a time of opportunity, that they can play one administration off the other — they are wrong.” The Florida representative was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his national security advisor on Nov. 11. He is the first Green Beret to serve in Congress. Waltz’s conversation with Sullivan was first reported by Axios on Saturday. Sources say the pair discussed the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Last week, Biden approved Kyiv’s use of anti-personnel landmines, a decision Waltz equated to “World War I trench warfare.” He added “We need to bring this to a responsible end. We need to restore deterrence and peace and get ahead of this escalation later rather than responding to it.”Read it at PoliticoRead more at The Daily Beast.

Prices rose 2.6% between October 2023 and the same month in 2024, an unremarkable figure. Yet, inflation seems to be on everyone’s minds.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Friday hosted a dinner to thank longtime supporters on the White House South Lawn. In one of his last appearances in America's top job, Biden listed a number of accomplishments and reflected on the legacy of his time in office.

Ukraine says Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, one carrying a conventional warhead, toward it. ICBMs can also be used to launch nuclear weapons, and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently lowered the bar for using nuclear weapons in what appeared to be a threat to the U.S. and its NATO allies.

Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, was a leading architect of “Bidenomics.”

After warning voters for years that a Donald Trump win would be calamitous for American democracy, Biden has gone largely silent on his concerns about what lays ahead for America and he has yet to substantively reflect on why Democrats were decisively defeated up and down the ballot.

Senate Democrats can confirm 12-14 judicial nominees in the final weeks before Christmas and could nudge Biden to 235 confirmations compared to Trump's 234.

In today’s edition, White House correspondent Mike Memoli files a dispatch from Rio de Janeiro on President Joe Biden's final international summit. Plus, national political correspondent Steve Kornacki breaks down the final election results from our seven key "Deciders" counties. Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here.