“It’s hard to imagine this White House without this First Lady,” Earnest replied, pointing to her important work as an advocate for causes like “Let’s Move!” and carrying out the ceremonial duties as First Lady.
“What the president has said is that members of Congress should be more concerned about the jobs of Americans than their own jobs,” spokesman Josh Earnest said, asserting that passing trade authorities would “help” middle class families.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest revealed that Obama called Boehner this morning to discuss the vote, and is still lobbying Congressional members of both parties. “I’m confident that is not the only telephone call that the president will have it a member of Congress today,” he told reporters during the White House press briefing.
President Obama can’t be trusted to negotiate a condo in Cleveland or a couch off Craigslist, let alone a trillion dollar trade deal that could impact millions of workers. But many Republicans in Washington think we can trust him to negotiate a new trade deal with Asia. Haven’t we learned our lesson?
Is it a good idea to loosen the screening process for Pakistani nationals seeking visas to enter the United States?
The “interview” will be hosted by Extra correspondent Jerry Penacoli, who played roles on “Days of Our Lives,” “Baywatch” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
According to White House officials, Obama is engaged with members of both parties to pull the trade agreement across the finish line on Friday.
The debate over providing “fast track” authority for President Barack Obama to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other trade deals has touched on constitutional, economic, and political arguments. Yet the most important question is whether Obama should be allowed to negotiate anything at all after a dismal track record. When Obama is negotiating with anyone other than congressional Republicans, who fold easily, he makes one bad deal after another.
Obama’s words may appear as a purposeful twist to appeal to leftwing “social justice” Catholics while at the same time not admitting that unborn babies are, in fact, “human beings.” Like many liberals, Obama also uses the words of Pope Francis to shore up support for his policies he views as advocating for equality and fairness, while ignoring the Church’s unchanging doctrine in areas such as the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, and marriage between one man and one woman.
On Wednesday, according to The Hill, the White House Office of Management and Budget approved new plans to regulate airplane emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency will now hold hearings on the prospective findings, then write up regulation. According to the
An Instagram photo posted by one of the Italian Prime Ministers staff showed Obama holding a package of what looked like cigarettes, making the image go viral.
According to the White House Press Secretary, Obama will authorize up to 450 additional troops to Iraq to “train, advise, and assist” Iraqis efforts to battle ISIS. The personnel boost will bring the total of U.S. forces in Iraq of up to 3,350, and is expected to occur this summer.
Tuesday at Martin Luther King Jr. Preparatory High School in Chicago, IL, First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address for the graduating class telling them because of the “struggles” that come with growing up on the south side of
The grassroots are on fire against ObamaTrade. Conservatives are outraged that the same politicians who said, “Elect me and I will stand up to Obama,” would actually vote to give him more power.
On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, co-host Joe Scarborough reacted to a possible trial balloon floated by the White House in The Wall Street Journal that suggested President Barack Obama may be considering putting some troops back in Iraq. He
During the White House Press briefing yesterday, one reporter brought up the news that Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s predecessor at the podium Robert Gibbs had just taken a job with fast-food giant McDonald’s.
The decision to send additional troops comes shortly after Obama admitted that his administration didn’t have a “complete strategy” yet on the proposal of recruiting and training more Iraqis to fight ISIS.
During commencement exercises at a South Side Chicago high school, First Lady Michelle Obama encouraged students to work every day to change the narrative that comes out of troubled black communities.
The government of Guyana has declared Venezuela a “regional threat” after the socialist nation imposed an expansion of its “integral maritime zone” deep into Guyanese waters, just months after President Obama denounced Venezuela as a threat to America’s national security.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared his health care law a firmly established “reality” of American life even as the legality of one of its key elements awaits a decision by the Supreme Court.
“Well part of the leverage is, if I’m in a trade relationship with them, that allows me to raise standards, now they have to start thinking about how quick they’re chopping down their forests and what kinds of standards they need to apply to environmental conservation,” President Obama says.
A new United Nations report suggests that the Obama administration and other western governments may be covering up Iran’s violations of international sanctions of ahead of the upcoming June 30 deadline for a final nuclear deal to be agreed.
Tuesday, the White House press briefing was shut down reportedly because of a “telephonic bomb threat.” After the White House press corps returned to the Brady Press Room, they expressed their frustration and peppered press secretary Josh Earnest with so many questions,
The peculiar notion that American exceptionalism requires America to bow before international norms finds its apotheosis in the Obama administration’s current foreign policy.
Obama apologists have recently been trotted out en masse to absurdly portray the Obama presidency as an entirely scandal-free citadel of piety. It is, they assure us, the political equivalent of the Vestal Virgins who guard the sacred flame. As Obama, himself, has insisted, there is not a “scintilla of scandal” to be seen.
