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As Midterms Near, Biden Warns Republicans Seek to Dismantle Democratic Legislation
WASHINGTON — President Biden warned on Friday that Republicans may upend legislative victories achieved underneath his administration and a Democratic Congress if the G.O.P. had been to win management of Congress in November’s midterm elections.
“They don’t have a platform aside from to tear down what I’ve been capable of do, we’ve been capable of do.” Mr. Biden informed an MSNBC information anchor, in keeping with NBC Information. “And I don’t know what they’re for.”
He additionally vowed to veto a federal abortion ban if Republicans regain majorities of Congress and search to cross such laws. G.O.P. candidates have sought to keep away from the topic as polls present a majority of voters assist abortion rights.
“The president has to signal it. I’ll veto it,” he mentioned.
Democrats pulled out a latest collection of legislative victories heading into marketing campaign season, after passing sweeping well being, local weather and tax laws earlier this yr. These embody an infusion of funding into America’s semiconductor business to counter China and expanded medical advantages for veterans who had been uncovered to toxins from burn pits on navy bases and a gun security package deal.
“These final a number of weeks all I’m doing is saying right here’s what we’re for, right here’s what they’re for and make a alternative and vote,” Biden mentioned within the interview with the MSNBC journalist Jonathan Capehart. “And I believe persons are going to indicate up and vote like they did final time.”
The State of the 2022 Midterm Elections
Each events are making their closing pitches forward of the Nov. 8 election.
Most not too long ago, Mr. Biden vowed to wipe out as much as $20,000 in pupil mortgage debt, which he touted on the marketing campaign path on Friday, noting that this system has acquired 22 million purposes because it opened final week.
However that plan was dealt a blow with a ruling by an appeals court docket Friday on a case introduced by a number of Republican-led states. And numerous Republicans in Congress have focused a few of the administration’s key legislative measures.
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A number of Home Republicans, together with the highest G.O.P. member of the committee that oversees entitlement applications equivalent to Medicare and Medicaid, mentioned they’d again repealing the regulation that decreased prescription drug prices for seniors if their occasion took management of the Home in November.
Mr. Biden has beforehand warned that Republicans pose a risk to Social Safety and Medicare, as Democrats paint the destiny of America’s social security web applications as a central marketing campaign challenge. He has additionally promised to proceed to push ahead on Democratic priorities within the subsequent two years, like codifying abortion rights, strengthening gun management legal guidelines and instituting police reform, all measures that might be nonstarters with Republican majorities within the Home and Senate.
“What do you suppose they’re going to do?” Mr. Biden mentioned at an occasion final month, criticizing a plan drafted by Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, that might permit Social Safety and Medicare to “sundown” if Congress didn’t lengthen the applications with new laws.
In his MSNBC interview, Mr. Biden dismissed polls that confirmed that almost all of voters disproved of his dealing with of the financial system. A latest New York Occasions/Siena School ballot discovered Republicans have an edge amongst seemingly voters going into November, with many citizens citing worries concerning the financial system, a difficulty on which Republican candidates have closely campaigned.
Mr. Biden has stored a low profile on the marketing campaign path, selecting to keep away from rallies and as a substitute touting his legislative victories in smaller occasions. He reiterated on Friday to MSNBC that he intends to hunt re-election in 2024, although he mentioned he had not made a proper resolution.
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Four Fraternity Members Charged After a Pledge Is Set on Fire
Four fraternity members at San Diego State University are facing felony charges after a pledge was set on fire during a skit at a party last year, leaving him hospitalized for weeks with third-degree burns, prosecutors said Monday.
The fire happened on Feb. 17, 2024, when the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity held a large party at its house, despite being on probation, court documents show. While under probation, the fraternity was required to “demonstrate exemplary compliance with university policies,” according to the college’s guidelines.
Instead, prosecutors said, the fraternity members planned a skit during which a pledge would be set on fire.
After drinking alcohol in the presence of the fraternity president, Caden Cooper, 22, the three younger men — Christopher Serrano, 20, and Lars Larsen, 19, both pledges, and Lucas Cowling, 20 — then performed the skit, prosecutors said.
Mr. Larsen was set on fire and wounded, prosecutors said, forcing him to spend weeks in the hospital for treatment of third-degree burns covering 16 percent of his body, mostly on his legs.
The charges against Mr. Cooper, Mr. Cowling and Mr. Serrano include recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury; conspiracy to commit an act injurious to the public; and violating the social host ordinance. If convicted of all the charges, they would face a sentence of probation up to seven years, two months in prison.
Mr. Larsen himself was charged. The San Diego County District Attorney’s office said that he, as well as Mr. Cooper and Mr. Cowling, also tried to lie to investigators in the case, deleted evidence on social media, and told other fraternity members to destroy evidence and not speak to anyone about what happened at the party.
All four men have pleaded not guilty.
Lawyers representing Mr. Cooper and Mr. Cowling did not immediately respond to messages requesting comment on Tuesday. Contact information for lawyers for Mr. Serrano and Mr. Larsen was not immediately available.
The four students were released on Monday, but the court ordered them not to participate in any fraternity parties, not to participate in any recruitment events for the fraternity, and to obey all laws, including those related to alcohol consumption.
The university said Tuesday that it would begin its own administrative investigation into the conduct of the students and the fraternity, now that the police investigation was complete.
After it confirmed the details, the dean of students office immediately put the Phi Kappa Psi chapter on interim suspension, which remains in effect, college officials confirmed on Tuesday.
Additional action was taken, but the office said it could not reveal specifics because of student privacy laws.
“The university prioritizes the health and safety of our campus community,” college officials said in a statement, “and has high expectations for how all members of the university community, including students, behave in the interest of individual and community safety and well-being.”
At least half a dozen fraternities at San Diego State University have been put on probation in the last two years, officials said.
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Video: Several Killed in Wisconsin School Shooting, Including Juvenile Suspect
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Several Killed in Wisconsin School Shooting, Including Juvenile Suspect
The police responded to a shooting at a private Christian school in Madison, Wis., on Monday.
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Around 10:57 a.m., our officers were responding to a call of an active shooter at the Abundant Life Christian School here in Madison. When officers arrived, they found multiple victims suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers located a juvenile who they believe was responsible for this deceased in the building. I’m feeling a little dismayed now, so close to Christmas. Every child, every person in that building is a victim and will be a victim forever. These types of trauma don’t just go away.
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Video: Biden Apologizes for U.S. Mistreatment of Native American Children
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Biden Apologizes for U.S. Mistreatment of Native American Children
President Biden offered a formal apology on Friday on behalf of the U.S. government for the abuse of Native American children from the early 1800s to the late 1960s.
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The Federal government has never, never formally apologized for what happened until today. I formally apologize. It’s long, long, long overdue. Quite frankly, there’s no excuse that this apology took 50 years to make. I know no apology can or will make up for what was lost during the darkness of the federal boarding school policy. But today, we’re finally moving forward into the light.
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