Joe Biden
Littwin: The art of persuasion is on life support. Biden’s safety net bill isn’t feeling too good, either
In Colorado, mandate-hesitant Jared Polis is reduced to begging the unvaccinated to get jabbed as the virus returns to the state with a vengeance
Littwin: There are many ways to cut Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending bill. Nearly all of them are bad.
Senate Democrats will pass a bill, if not one for $3.5 trillion — because they have to. It’s all on Biden to figure out what Manchin and Sinema will agree to.
Joe Biden will restore 3 national monuments slashed by Trump
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, expressed disappointment in Biden's decision to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments, which the Trump administration downsized significantly in 2017
Littwin: Do Pelosi and Biden have a plan to save the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill? They’d better.
Pelosi says the House will vote on the $1.1 trillion infrastructure bill on Thursday. She needs progressives to pass it, and that’s where things get complicated.
Biden nominates Cole Finegan to be the next top federal prosecutor in Colorado
Finegan, who is currently the managing partner of the Denver office of the sprawling Hogan Lovells law firm, is a known quantity in Colorado’s Democratic political circles
Carman: Buckle up! Wild and crazy California politics likely will be on full display in Colorado in 2022
The rhetoric of the expensive and unsuccessful attempt to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is just a preview of what Colorado will experience in the coming election cycle.
Littwin: In the name of “freedom,” America ranks 40th in the world for those fully vaccinated. Seriously.
The question isn’t whether Biden’s 6-part vaccination plan, which includes mandates, is a power grab. (It isn’t.) The question is whether we still qualify as a serious country.
Biden, speaking in Colorado, pitches spending plan as key to fight climate change
Biden spoke about “more jobs for the economy” as he checked out a giant windmill blade laying on the ground outside the lab and got a demonstration of wind turbine technology
Biden turns to Colorado to pitch investments in clean energy to combat climate change
The trip to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden will cap off the president’s two-day swing to the West
Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for 100 million Americans, 800,000 Coloradans
The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly
Joe Biden will make a stop in Denver on Tuesday
Biden will participate in a "Build Back Better" event, according to the White House. Further details on his appearance were not released.
Littwin: The war in Afghanistan wasn’t lost in the chaos at the airport. It was lost the day we decided to invade Iraq.
That’s when the mission changed and we decided to remake the world in our image. We also failed to learn lessons from previous wars
Littwin: Joe Biden made the right call in leaving Afghanistan. If only he’d known how to pull it off.
In his speech, Biden gave a forceful explanation for why it was long past time to end the war in Afghanistan. But he offered no real explanation for how the ending turned into chaos.
“A lot of complex feelings”: How 3 Colorado veterans who served in Afghanistan feel about the country’s collapse
Forty Coloradans died in the war in Afghanistan. Fort Carson in Colorado Springs lost nearly 100 soldiers to the conflict.
Democratic Colorado congressman on Afghanistan: “We didn’t need to be in this position”
Jason Crow, an Army veteran who fought in Afghanistan, says the U.S. must work hard to evacuate as many Afghans who helped American troops as possible
Littwin: Why would McConnell give Biden a victory on infrastructure? If you’re not suspicious, you’re not paying attention
Michael Bennet, up for reelection next year, says he’s happy to run on both infrastructure bills, which he says will be popular in rural America. Guess what: Trump apparently thinks so, too.
Denver LGBT-rights activist tapped by Biden to serve as ambassador to Switzerland
Scott Miller, the husband of Tim Gill, is a former account vice president at UBS Wealth Management in Denver
Biden pick for Colorado’s federal bench would be first openly gay LGBT woman to serve as district court judge in the West
Charlotte Sweeney, an employment law attorney, will be nominated to serve on the U.S. District Court in Colorado
U.S. preparing new 60-day eviction ban due to COVID spread
The new 60-day eviction moratorium would protect areas heavily impacted by the coronavirus, where about 90% of the U.S. population lives
Silverman: End the filibuster on voting-rights legislation to stop election-rigging schemes
It's time to learn from our history and pass meaningful federal civil rights legislation