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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, wears a face mask as he arrives for the the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. Fauci says the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel as coronavirus infections surge. To date the Biden administration has balked at the idea, anticipating legal entanglements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Fauci: U.S. should consider vaccine mandate for U.S. air travel

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, wears a face mask as he arrives for the the White House COVID-19 Response Team's regular call with the National Governors Association in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021, in Washington. Fauci says the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel as coronavirus infections surge. To date the Biden administration has balked at the idea, anticipating legal entanglements. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Dr. Fauci: U.S. should consider vaccine mandate for domestic air travel

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks to the media during a visit to the Georgia Ports Authority's Megarail facility, Friday, Dec., 17, 2021 in Savannah, Ga. Buttigieg used the visit to highlight the coordination with the his department and the Georgia Ports Authority to improve its cargo flow. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Buttigieg doles out $241M to U.S. ports to boost supply chain

By Hope Yen - Associated Press

In this June 17, 2019, file photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, an American flag is displayed on the control tower of the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The White House says it intends to shutter the prison on the U.S. base in Cuba, which opened in January 2002 and where most of the 39 men still held have never been charged with a crime. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

No time to close Gitmo

By Charles Stimson

In this Friday, June 1, 2018,, file photo, graduates are silhouetted against the green landscape as they line up to receive their diplomas at Berkshire Community College's commencement exercises at the Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. Critics of traditional four-year degree programs say grads leave burdened with student loans and no clear path to a career. But experts say the four-year degree is still a good investment since it leads to higher overall lifetime earnings compared to workers without a degree. (Gillian Jones/The Berkshire Eagle via AP, File)

Biden considers extending break from repaying student loans

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

Illustration on the importance of farming by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

If Biden wants to fight off global warming, he should stop pestering farmers

By Brian McNicoll

In this May 12, 2021, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden administration jacks up fuel-efficiency standards as climate bill sinks

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Team Biden's SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Red Tape for Stock Traders Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden appointee Gary Gensler trying to make it pricier to trade stocks

By Bryan Bashur

A demonstrator holds a placard and a lantern during a demonstration outside the Chinese Embassy in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. An independent, unofficial body set up by a prominent British barrister to assess evidence on China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people concluded Thursday that the Chinese government committed genocide and crimes against humanity. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

U.S. imposes sanctions against China over abuse of Uyghurs

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Student driver Luis Barrientos, left, gets on a truck as instructor Daniel Osborne watches at California Truck Driving Academy in Inglewood, Calif., Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) ** FILE **

White House to unveil plan to put new truck drivers behind the wheel

By Joseph Clark and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, should step down from office, Dr. Mehmet Oz said recently. The Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania said Dr. Fauci has lost the "faith and confidence of the American people." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

White House says no need to lock down amid omicron scare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, photo, David Xol-Cholom, of Guatemala, hugs his son Byron at Los Angeles International Airport as they reunite after being separated during the Trump administration's wide-scale separation of immigrant families, in Los Angeles. A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) **FILE**

ACLU launches ad campaign to pressure Biden over illegal immigrant families

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets virtually with Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Nov. 15, 2021. Biden is ready to urge participants at the first-ever White House Summit for Democracy to reverse an ongoing recession of democracy that is playing out a time of rising authoritarianism around the globe and extraordinary strains on foundational institutions in the U.S. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden to decry democracy ‘recession’ at White House summit

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, two Chinese SU-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea. China flew more than 30 military planes, including SU-30 fighter jets, toward Taiwan on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2021, the second large display of force in as many days.(Jin Danhua/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon warns China is preparing for military campaign to take over Taiwan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. Congressional leaders reached a deal to lift the nation's debt limit that will allow Democrats to increase the nation's borrowing authority without any votes from Republicans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes bill banning imports from China’s Xinjiang region

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this June 24, 2021 photo, lumber is piled at a housing construction site in Middleton, Mass. Rising costs and shortages of building materials and labor are rippling across the homebuilding industry, which accounted for nearly 12% of all U.S. home sales in July. Construction delays are common, prompting many builders to pump the brakes on the number of new homes they put up for sale. As building a new home gets more expensive, some of those costs are passed along to buyers. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Raising softwood lumber tariffs will hurt Americans and Canadians both

By Michel Kelly-Gagnon and Anthony Kim

FILE - A woman seeking asylum in the United States waits with others for news of policy changes on Feb. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Biden administration is set to reinstate a Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court this week with changes and additions. A U.S. official says the first migrants are to be sent from El Paso, Texas, back to Ciudad Juarez. Timing was in flux as officials made final preparations but it may begin Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

What is the revived US policy on Mexico border?

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

A visitor to the Shougang Park walks past the a sculpture for the Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. China on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, threatened to take "firm countermeasures" if the U.S. proceeds with a diplomatic boycott of February's Beijing Winter Olympic Games. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

White House announces a diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this March 30, 2021, photo, minors are shown inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. As the Biden administration ponders cutting $450,000 checks to compensate illegal immigrants who suffered emotional trauma from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy, figuring out exactly the right comparison with previous government payouts is fraught with complications. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) **FILE**

Congress approves emergency $1.6 billion for care of illegal immigrant children

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Migrants arrive in Villa Comaltitlan, Chiapas state, Mexico, on Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their journey through Mexico to the U.S. border. Three Republican-led states filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop President Biden from ending the pandemic border-emergency order that had helped block illegal immigrants' path into the U.S., saying he moved too rashly. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

DHS to restart Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ border policy after Mexico agrees to conditions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times