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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters asking about President Joe Biden's proposed $5.8 trillion budget, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats eye tying emergency Ukraine aid to stalled $10B coronavirus package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks Friday, April 22, 2022, at Green River College in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Biden’s approval slumps coast-to-coast as concerns rise about performance, fitness

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This image provided by Pfizer shows the company's COVID-19 Paxlovid pills. Pfizer's and Merck's COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron wave of infections. (Pfizer via AP, File)

WH expands access to COVID-19 pill, warns options will wane if Congress blocks virus money

By Tom Howell Jr. and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks Friday, April 22, 2022, at Green River College in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. President Joe Biden is announcing that he has granted the first three pardons of his term. In one case he is providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of trying to sell a copy of an agency file. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Biden exercises clemency powers for first time in his presidency

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens during an announcement of the creation of a new South Carolina Freedom Caucus based on a similar national group at a news conference on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Pro-Trump lawmakers discussed using martial law ahead of the Biden inauguration

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens during an announcement of the creation of a new South Carolina Freedom Caucus based on a similar national group at a news conference on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Mark Meadows was warned of potential violence on Jan. 6, House panel says in court filing

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Monday, April 11, 2022, about medical debt. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kamala Harris replaces chief of staff in latest VP office shakeup

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Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Biden administration appeals mask mandate rejection after CDC says it must fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Canceled public transportation mask mandate prompts patchwork of rules across U.S.

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

White House press secretary Jen Psaki listens as Council of Economic Advisers member Jared Bernstein speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, April 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Unspeakable: It’s time for unethical Jen Psaki to go

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 7, 2014, file photo, traffic on the Brent Spence Bridge passes in front of the Cincinnati skyline while crossing the Ohio River to and from Covington, Ky. Governors from Ohio and Kentucky asked the federal government on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, for $2 billion to fix and replace a bridge that became a symbol during the debate over the infrastructure bill passed last year. Overhauling the Brent Spence Bridge that connects Cincinnati with Northern Kentucky was a big selling point for President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Biden to agencies: Make sure infrastructure materials funded by law are ‘Made in America’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Bidens welcome families back to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Travelers line up wearing protective masks indoors at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Dec. 28, 2021. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Judge voids federal mask mandate for public transportation

By Kerry Picket, Alex Swoyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah is shown at a Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, in this file photo. Mr. Lee told social-media company executives at a hearing on Oct. 26, 2021, that his staffers recently created a Snapchat account posing as a young teenager in order to look into potential hazards facing minors who use social media, only to quickly find themselves inundated with sexually charged content. (Drew Angerer/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Texts show GOP lawmakers’ waning support for Trump’s bid to overturn election before Jan. 6: Report

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks to reporters on the campus of Montana State University Billings in Billings, Mont., on April 23, 2021. Pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers' ability to speculate on the stock market. Public anger over congressional stock trading has mounted since the first tremors of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

2 GOP lawmakers become first to visit war-torn Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden appears with first lady Jill Biden and the Easter Bunny on the Blue Room balcony at the White House April 5, 2021, in Washington. The White House Easter Egg Roll is returning on April 18, 2022, after a 2-year, COVID-induced hiatus. The Biden's will welcome some 30,000 kids and their adult chaperones for the egg roll, an egg hunt and other activities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Easter Egg Roll returns after 2-year, COVID-induced hiatus

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

A handler walks Major, one of President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden's dogs, Monday, March 29, 2021, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bidens’ dog Major involved in other attacks on Secret Service agents

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

$President Joe Biden speaks before signing the American Rescue Plan, a coronavirus relief package, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 11, 2021, in Washington. Biden is releasing a budget blueprint that tries to tell voters what the diverse and at times fractured Democratic Party stands for. It calls for higher taxes on the wealthy, lower budget deficits, more money for police and greater funding for education, public health and housing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**$

U.S. tax revenues set another record of $2.1 trillion under Biden in last six months

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

Mayor Pete boosted as possible Jen Psaki replacement

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Travelers are lining up at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Friday, July 2, 2021. The federal requirement to wear face masks on airplanes and public transportation is scheduled to expire next week, and airline executives and Republican lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to let the mandate die. The fate of the rule — and consideration of an alternate “framework” of moves to limit the spread of COVID-19 — was under discussion Monday, April 11, 2022 within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Mask rule for planes and trains still up in the air

By David Koenig - Associated Press