Biden travels to New Hampshire to highlight infrastructure law - The Washington Post
Today, President Biden is headed to New Hampshire on the first of two trips this week designed to sell voters on the bipartisan infrastructure law. Ahead of the midterms, it’s a key part of Democratic messaging about their ability to get things done in Washington even as other legislative priorities are stalled. Biden is visiting the harbor in Portsmouth, N.H. to talk about investments in ports. On Thursday, he’ll highlight the infrastructure law on the other side of the country during a trip to Portland, Ore.
Before leaving Washington on Tuesday morning, Biden is scheduled to conduct a call with allies to talk about the war in Ukraine. On Monday, the White House signaled that more sanctions on Russia are coming amid its continued aggression.
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Presidential travel destinations aren’t chosen by accident, and Tuesday’s is no exception as President Biden makes his second trip to the Granite State of his presidency to tout the bipartisan infrastructure law passed last year.
He’ll deliver his message about Democrats getting things done in the home of state of Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), whose seat is being heavily targeted this year by Republicans as they try to wrest control of the evenly divided Senate. And Biden will appear in the congressional district of Rep. Chris Pappas (N.H.), who is considered one of the more vulnerable Democrats in the House this year.
Hassan, a first-term senator and former governor, caught a break when national Republicans failed to recruit New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) to run for the Senate. But even against a lesser-known Republican, Hassan’s race is expected to be competitive.
Pappas is the third vulnerable Democrat who will have hosted Biden in their district in recent weeks ahead of what could be a difficult midterm cycle in the House. A Biden trip to Greensboro, N.C., fell within Rep. Kathy E. Manning’s district, while a trip to Iowa was in Rep. Cindy Axne’s district.
Biden is speaking Tuesday at Portsmouth Harbor, which will receive infrastructure funding to accommodate larger ships and heavier loads of cargo, according to the White House.
The first gathering of the powerful Group of 20 nations since the Ukraine war began is emerging as a gauge of how the world’s leading international bodies will respond to the Russian aggression.
Yellen plans to attend the opening session of the G-20 finance ministers’ meeting Wednesday to show support for Ukraine’s finance minister, who has flown in from Kyiv for the conference, according to a Treasury Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of internal planning. But Yellen will skip other sessions over Russia’s presence, the official said.
Many of the countries in the G-20 have condemned Russia, but some of its most influential members, such as China and India, have not. And many of the world’s wealthiest nations, including much of Europe, remain heavily dependent on Russian oil and natural gas even after the invasion, highlighting how deeply entangled Russia’s economy is with the rest of the world despite the severe sanctions the United States and its allies have imposed over the war.
It’s been eight months since President Biden unveiled a plan to deliver coronavirus booster shots. While Biden aimed for all vaccinated adults to get a booster, only about half have gotten one so far.
The Post’s Aaron Blake says booster shots are a significant shortcoming in the federal government’s coronavirus response — with no easy answers for why or what to do about it. Aaron writes:
A big factor is how partisan vaccines have become in the United States. Republicans make up a disproportionate share of the unvaccinated, and vaccinated Republicans are also significantly less likely to get boosted than vaccinated Democrats. That means the booster campaign has effectively exacerbated the partisan gap in protection from the coronavirus. It also means that most of the unboosted are unlikely to listen to the Biden administration.
Vice President Harris, in her capacity as chair of the National Space Council, announced Monday that the United States will no longer conduct destructive tests of satellites and called on other nations to agree to a set of rules governing responsible behavior in space as Earth’s orbit becomes increasingly congested with dangerous debris.
The announcement came early in a scheduled week-long visit to the state Harris represented in the Senate before joining Biden in the White House. Other events planned this week are designed to highlight other parts of Harris’s current portfolio, including a speech Thursday in San Francisco on maternal health. On Monday, Harris also headlined a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, where she expressed optimism about the upcoming midterm elections.
The announcement came five months after Russia blew up a dead satellite with a missile, creating a massive debris field that will stay in orbit for years.
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/19/biden-new-hampshire-infrastructure/
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