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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky wears a mask as she arrives at the Capitol on April 15 before testifying at a House panel about the pandemic.

White House announces efforts to help renters, homeowners

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 24, 2021 at 11:50am
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with the media at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport before boarding Air Force Two back to Washington on June 18.

Kamala Harris to visit southern border amid mounting pressure

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted June 23, 2021 at 3:33pm
President Joe Biden, with Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 8.

Biden ‘zero tolerance’ policy to target rogue gun dealers

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 23, 2021 at 8:06am
Vice President Kamala Harris talks with members of the media in the Capitol on Tuesday, June 22, 2021.

Harris casts fifth and sixth tiebreak votes to confirm OPM chief

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted June 22, 2021 at 8:37pm
Steve Ricchetti, counselor to President Joe Biden, departs from a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators to negotiate an infrastructure package in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Senate voting rights bill vote doesn’t dominate Biden’s day

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 22, 2021 at 6:15pm
Jeff Zients, seen here in the White House briefing room, addressed reporters virtually on Tuesday.

White House concedes it will fall short of Biden’s July 4 vaccination goal

By Ariel Cohen and Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 22, 2021 at 2:05pm
President Joe Biden returns to the White House on June 16, 2021, after his trip to Europe, where he met with members of the G7, NATO leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Joe Biden and the post-Europe letdown

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 21, 2021 at 10:30am
President Joe Biden shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to the US-Russia summit at the Villa La Grange in Geneva on June 16.

Biden warns Putin of ‘significant’ US cyber capabilities

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 16, 2021 at 4:02pm
Swiss President Guy Parmelin welcomes President Joe Biden at Cointrin Airport in Geneva on Tuesday.

Biden should be ready for Putin to talk about Jan. 6

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 15, 2021 at 2:25pm
Normandy fencing fills a gap in the border barrier on the Johnson Ranch near Columbus, N.M., on April 12.

Biden’s holdup of border wall funding didn’t violate law, GAO rules

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 15, 2021 at 11:01am, Updated at 2:06pm
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, and President Joe Biden attended a working session at the G7 summit in Cornwall, U.K., on Saturday.

G-7 leaders buy into Biden’s ‘build back better’ pitch

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 13, 2021 at 11:27am
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and other supporters of the S 1 elections overhaul rally outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Garland zeroes in on voting rights

By Todd Ruger
Posted June 11, 2021 at 4:12pm
Navy Secretary designee Carlos Del Toro previously served as commanding officer of the USS Bulkeley, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, seen here in the Gulf of Oman in 2014.

Biden to pick Cuban-born Navy veteran to be Navy secretary

By Andrew Clevenger
Posted June 11, 2021 at 3:19pm
Rep. Scott Franklin, R-Fla., takes a selfie in front of piles of unused border fence during the tour of the border wall on the Johnson Ranch near Columbus, N.M., on April 12, 2021.

Biden administration offers plan for unused border wall funds

By Paul M. Krawzak
Posted June 11, 2021 at 2:16pm
President Joe Biden prepares to address U.S. Air Force personnel and their families stationed at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, Suffolk, England on Wednesday.

Biden expected to announce US will buy 500 million Pfizer vaccine doses for the world

By Emily Kopp and Niels Lesniewski
Posted June 9, 2021 at 5:21pm
President Joe Biden waves as he and first lady Jill Biden walk on the ellipse to board Marine One on Wednesday on the first leg of their journey to Europe.

Trends in US hamper Biden’s ‘America is back’ message to Europe

By Rachel Oswald
Posted June 9, 2021 at 3:50pm
President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks at the White House on June 2 on the COVID-19 response.

Biden OK with $300 unemployment supplement expiring

By Lindsey McPherson
Posted June 4, 2021 at 3:07pm, Updated at 4:35pm
President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6.

Facebook continues Trump ban for two more years

By Gopal Ratnam
Posted June 4, 2021 at 4:26pm
President Joe Biden talks with children Tuesday before delivering remarks at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla., to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.

Biden puts voting rights in Harris’ portfolio ahead of Senate debate

By Niels Lesniewski and Kate Ackley
Posted June 1, 2021 at 6:43pm
On policy matters, President Joe Biden isn’t facing the same level of stonewalling from Republicans in Congress that Barack Obama did, Zeller writes.

Maybe Biden is a moderate after all

By Shawn Zeller
Posted June 1, 2021 at 7:00am
Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger is the lead sponsor on legislation to authorize 4,000 new Afghan Special Immigrant Visas, but he admits more needs to be done to address the current backlog.

White House faces mounting calls to protect Afghan allies

By Caroline Coudriet
Posted May 27, 2021 at 5:45pm
Cecilia Rouse, center, the first Black woman to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, says Biden administration policies seek to include “those communities that have historically not been included in federal investments.”

No true economic growth without true equality, Cecilia Rouse says

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted May 25, 2021 at 7:30am
Call it a "shot at love": Dating apps such as OkCupid will allow users to show off their COVID-19 vaccination status as part of a public health push to promote the vaccine.

Public health officials target vaccine-hesitant via dating apps

By Ariel Cohen
Posted May 24, 2021 at 10:57am
Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has said she’d like to reach a broad agreement on the package before Memorial Day.

White House, Republicans remain far apart on infrastructure

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted May 21, 2021 at 7:00pm
President Joe Biden uses his fingers to whistle Wednesday during the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s commencement exercises in New London, Conn.

Biden absolves Coast Guard cadets of minor infractions, jokes about his own

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 19, 2021 at 2:07pm
President Joe Biden fist bumps Vice President Kamala Harris as Speaker Nancy Pelosi claps at the end of his address to a joint session of Congress on April 28.

Bidens paid 26 percent tax on $607K income, 2020 return shows

By David Lerman
Posted May 17, 2021 at 7:23pm
CAP President and CEO Neera Tanden will be a senior White House adviser.

Tanden, former OMB nominee, to become senior Biden adviser

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 14, 2021 at 4:50pm
President Joe Biden meets in the Oval Office Thursday with a group of Republican senators including Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, right.

White House to release full fiscal 2022 budget request May 27

By Jennifer Shutt
Posted May 13, 2021 at 3:38pm
Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney is set to be ousted from leadership, shortly before GOP leaders head to the White House to talk infrastructure with President Joe Biden.

Eye on infrastructure: White House looks past GOP’s Cheney purge

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted May 11, 2021 at 6:15pm
A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands in front of the Treasury Department in Washington.

Treasury readies first batch of $350B aid to states, localities

By David Lerman
Posted May 10, 2021 at 1:07pm