Biden learned in June that the Stellantis plant was set to close and he made keeping it open a priority. The plant will expand as part of the tentative contract with the UAW. Biden met with UAW President Shawn Fain and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and plans to hold a fundraiser later in Chicago.
The speech will be an opportunity for Biden to argue that the United States has an obligation to help in both places, as well as for him to lobby lawmakers for the money to do so.
Buses from Texas accelerate as Illinois counts 15,000 new arrivals in 13 months.
Homeland Security will expedite work authorizations among other actions.
Emmett Till is the Black teenager from Chicago who was tortured and killed in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi.
President hypes ‘Bidenomics,’ reclaiming term coined by critics
The Treasury Department had warned that the country would start running short of cash to pay all of its bills on Monday, a development that would have sent shockwaves through the U.S. and global economies.
The legislation was passed by the Senate late Thursday night after being approved by the House the previous night. Biden is expected to sign the measure on Saturday.
President Joe Biden will address the nation Friday evening from the Oval Office on the budget deal that lifts the federal debt limit and averts a U.S. government default.
The votes on raising the nation’s debt ceiling fell along party lines among the downstate Illinois congressional delegation.
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL15) says she will not support the debt ceiling deal negotiated by President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy.
A source familiar with the deal says it would keep non-defense spending roughly flat in the 2024 fiscal year and increase it by 1% the following year, as well as provide for a two-year debt-limit increase.
An upbeat President Joe Biden says a deal to resolve the government’s debt ceiling crisis seems “very close.”
The Democratic president is asking voters to give him more time to “finish the job” he began when he was sworn into office and set aside their concerns about extending the run of America’s oldest president for another four years.
President Joe Biden is hosting a screening Thursday of the movie “Till,” about the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. Till’s death helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
