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President Joe Biden, second left, participates in 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. Seated with the President from left Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biden, Jeff Zients, COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House calls on Congress to pass COVID-19 deal immediately

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris listen as former President Barack Obama speaks about the Affordable Care Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama returns to White House to lift Biden and Harris ahead of midterms, rally around health agenda

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks during a visit with first lady Jill Biden to Bergen Community College in Paramus, N.J., Jan. 20, 2022. The Biden administration plans to freeze federal student loan payments through Aug. 31, extending a moratorium that has allowed millions of Americans to postpone payments during the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was confirmed by an administration official familiar with the White House’s decision-making. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

White House to extend student loan pause through August

By Collin Binkley and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Then-Vice President Joe Biden whispers &quot;This is a big f---ing deal,&quot; to President Barack Obama after introducing Obama during the health care bill ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 23, 2010. Obama returns to the White House on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, for a moment he can savor: His signature Affordable Care Act is now part of the fabric of the American health care system and President Joe Biden is looking to extend its reach. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biden to celebrate Obamacare and fix its ‘family glitch’ in ceremony alongside the law’s namesake

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a rally, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Rome, Ga. A group of Georgia voters is challenging Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection, saying she helped facilitate the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. The challenge filed Thursday, March 24, with the Georgia secretary of state’s office says it’s being brought by a group of registered voters in Greene’s congressional district. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Marjorie Taylor Greene sues to stop challenge to her reelection eligibility

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. Biden ends his first year in the White House with a clear majority of Americans for the first time disapproving of his handling of the presidency in the face of an unrelenting pandemic and roaring inflation. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden’s big-spending policies helped fuel inflation, says Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

An older section of the border wall divides Ciudad Juarez, Mexico from Sunland Park, New Mexico, top, on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. President Biden's new budget would take $2 billion in unspent border wall money and allow it to be spent instead on building roads or cutting down brush along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

Biden’s new budget would siphon unspent money from border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A man charged with threatening the lives of Alaska's two U.S. senators had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. An attorney for Jay Allen Johnson, entered the plea during an arraignment in U.S. District Court in Fairbanks. Johnson is accused of making threats against U.S. Sens. Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and of threatening to burn down properties owned by Murkowski in a series of profanity-laced voice messages left over the span of months at their offices in Washington, D.C., before his Oct. 4 arrest. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin,File)

Taxation without representation, thanks to Lisa Murkowski

By Kelly Tshibaka

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro holds his notes after a television interview at the White House, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, in Washington. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is pushing ahead with contempt charges against former Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in response to their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Former Trump aide Peter Navarro decries Jan. 6 panel’s ‘witch hunt’ ahead of criminal contempt vote

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., right, and wife, Celeste, arrive at the federal courthouse for his trial in Los Angeles, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Fortenberry was convicted Thursday, March 24, 2022, of charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FiLE**

McCarthy calls on convicted GOP congressman to resign

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during a rally, Saturday, March 5, 2022, in Rome, Ga. A group of Georgia voters is challenging Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection, saying she helped facilitate the riot that disrupted Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. The challenge filed Thursday, March 24, with the Georgia secretary of state’s office says it’s being brought by a group of registered voters in Greene’s congressional district. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Voters challenge Greene’s eligibility to run for reelection

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump confront U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Capitol in Washington. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol announced Thursday that it will vote next week on recommending criminal contempt of Congress charges for two former aides to President Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

House Jan. 6 committee to vote on criminal contempt charges for Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks with reporters after an event to remember the victims of shootings at three massage businesses in Georgia a year ago, on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. Six women of Asian descent were among the eight people killed on March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pelosi throws support behind making Daylight Saving Time permanent

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. House lawmakers debated in a Rules Committee hearing Thursday whether to roll back their system of proxy voting, established two years ago at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House lawmakers consider whether to roll back proxy voting

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Russian Energy Sanction Bill illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Russian Energy Sanction Bill is nothing more than smoke and mirrors

By Rep. Andy Biggs

The entrance to the Labor Department is seen near the Capitol in Washington. Unemployment fraud in the U.S. has reached dramatic levels during the pandemic: more than $63 billion has been paid out improperly through fraud or errors since March 2020. Criminals are seizing on the opportunity created by the pandemic and are making false claims using stolen information. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Feds have recovered less than 1% of $163 billion in bogus unemployment benefits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Firefighters extinguish flames outside an apartment house after a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, Ukraine, Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Pavel Dorogoy)

Zelenskyy’s powerful plea for help moves Congress, puts Biden on the spot to step up aid

By Joseph Clark and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet carrying a Kinzhal missile takes off from the Hemeimeem air base in Syria on June 25, 2021. Lawmakers stepped up pressure on President Biden to help get fighter jets to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful appeal to Congress on Wednesday for morel U.S. military support. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File) **FILE**

Lawmakers press Biden to help send MiG fighter jets after Zelenskyy’s address to Congress

By Joseph Clark, Kerry Picket and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., introduces Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to speak to the U.S. Congress by video at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Zelenskyy in speech to Congress urges U.S. for no-fly zone, aircraft to battle Russia

By Joseph Clark and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Feb. 1, 2022, in Washington. A Senate committee on Tuesday, March 15, approved a bipartisan blueprint to overhaul the nation’s public health system. Murray and Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., worked for over a year on the contours of the bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Pandemic preparedness bill moves ahead; funding still needed

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press