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Biden Lifts Abortion Referral Ban On Family Planning Clinics
Barack Obama Says He Can't Imagine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as polit- ical and legal battles over abor- tion grow sharper from Texas to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The Department of Health and Human Services said Mon- day its new regulation will re- store the federal family planning program to the way it ran under the Obama admin- istration, when clinics were able to refer women seeking abor- tions to a provider. The goal is to “strengthen and restore” services, said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Groups representing the clinics said they hope the Biden administration action
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN
will lead some 1,300 local facil- ities that left in protest over Trump's policies to return, helping to stabilize a longstand- ing program shaken by the coronavirus pandemic on top of ideological battles.
“I have heard that almost everywhere in the country peo- ple have made the decision that conditions will be good for them to return to the program,” Clare Coleman, president of the umbrella group National Family Planning & Reproduc- tive Health Association, said in an interview. “My sense is that people have been waiting for the rule.”
Planned Parenthood, the biggest service provider, said on Twitter its health centers look forward to returning. But the group criticized part of the Biden administration rule that allows individual clinicians who object to abortion not to pro- vide referrals. The administra- tion said that's “in accordance with applicable federal law.”
Former President and the First Lady of the United States of America, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, are celebrat- ing their 29th wedding anniver- sary by sending immense love to each other with adorable posts on social media. The two have truly been an inspiration for many cou- ples all around the world, and their romantic anniversary posts for each other will get you all teared up.
The former President of the United States shared two pictures with his wife to celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary. One photo shows them sitting on a couch while embracing each other lovingly, and the other is a picture clicked from the back as they stand by a window. Sharing the images, Barack Obama penned a love note for his wife and said he
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can't imagine a life without her. "Happy anniversary, Miche! Over the past 29 years, I've loved watching the world get to know you not just as a daughter of the South Side, but as a mother, lawyer, executive, author, First Lady, and my best friend. I can't imagine life without you,"
U. S. Treasury Secretary Yellen Says U. S. Debt Default Could Trigger Recession
Obama captioned his post. Progressive, Moderate Democrats
Life Without Michelle Obama On
29th Wedding Anniversary
U. S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday that a US debt default could trig- ger another recession, as an Oc- tober 18 deadline approaches.
"I totally expect it would cause a recession," Yellen said on CNBC, referring to what would be an unprecedented US default as lawmakers fight over raising the debt ceiling.
Yellen has warned previously that after October 18, the United States will not have the funds to meet its obligations to creditors
if Congress does not relax the legal debt ceiling.
Congress has done this dozens of times over the decades since setting borrowing limits, and the votes are usually bipartisan and drama-free.
This year, reflecting the ex- traordinary acrimony in Wash- ington, Republicans are refusing to vote for lifting the ceiling and vow even to block Democrats from passing a sim- ple vote by themselves along party lines.
Instead, Senate Republicans are attempting to force Democ- rats to use a complex maneuver called reconciliation to take sole responsibility for the debt hike. Democrats so far are refusing, accusing the Republicans of tak- ing the nation's financial stand- ing hostage.
President Joe Biden on Monday called Republican op- ponents "reckless and danger- ous" for refusing to join Democrats in raising the debt limit.
Need To Get Out The Way
One thing you can say about Re- publicans is; they stick together whether it's wrong or right. De- mocrats are a different breed. Progressive, moderates always make things hard for themselves. Who wants the credit or spotlight. When you have the majority in the House and Senate it's always 2 or 3 Democrats causing prob- lems. During President Barack Obama first term, we had 6 Blue- dog Democrats giving Obama hell.
If you leave milk out for too long, it curdles. If Democrats aren’t careful, they are about to let this happen with their big and broadly popular investment pro- gram, just as they did a decade ago with Obamacare.
Over time, the Affordable Care Act became popular enough that Republicans couldn’t repeal it even after they won the power to do so. But in the years immedi- ately after the ACA passed, the bill was tainted by a protracted and ugly legislative process that left voters wondering what the thing was about — and what it did for them.
And soon after, Democrats lost the House in the 2010 midterm rout.
Let’s stipulate that much of the ugliness in Washington now is the product of a Republican Party whose level of irresponsibility is boundless.
Playing chicken with the coun- try’s credit by disclaiming any ob- ligation even to allow Democrats to hold an up-or-down vote on raising the debt ceiling is dis- graceful — especially since Re- publicans added to the deficit themselves by roughly $7.8 tril-
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lion during Donald Trump’s presidency. There’s also the mat- ter of the GOP undermining the democratic process itself in state after state.
Tom Perriello: I lost my elec- tion after voting for Obamacare. Democrats need to back Biden’s agenda.
Unfortunately for President Biden and Democrats who hold the narrowest of congressional majorities, this only increases the burden on them to prove that the system can still solve public prob- lems.
Democrats got off to a good start with the content of the two big bills they are trying to push through. They married the desire for fundamental change among the party’s large progressive wing with a set of specific programs that, taken individually, are any- thing but radical.
The child tax credit the De- mocrats want to extend is some- thing that, in a rational world, both parties would make perma- nent, since conservatives as well as liberals see it as an efficient and sensible way to ease the burdens on struggling families, low-in- come and middle-class alike.
But Democrats have a gift for never making things simple.
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