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Today, President Biden plans to meet with Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, during a trip to Boston that also includes a union event and a fundraiser for Senate Democrats ahead of the runoff in the Georgia Senate race on Tuesday. Before the trip, Biden signed legislation averting a national rail strike. He said “the fight isn’t over” for paid sick leave for rail workers, which was not included in the bill.
In Washington, the Democratic National Committee is meeting to consider a plan from Biden that would overhaul his party’s presidential nominating calendar for 2024, making South Carolina the nation’s first primary state. The move is meant to signal the party’s commitment to elevating more variety — demographic, geographic and economic — in the early nominating process.
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2:50 p.m. Eastern: Biden greets the royal couple in Boston.4:10 p.m. Eastern: Biden visits the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union in Boston.5:45 p.m. Eastern: Biden participates in a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reception in Boston.Noted: White House says there are ‘discussions’ to address climate bill ‘glitches’
One day after President Biden acknowledged there were “glitches” in the climate legislation he signed, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration can address those issues without Congress.
“We don’t have any plans to go back to Congress,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday. “There is a complex implementation and process which is actively underway at federal agencies. But we don’t have anything — we’re not going to be addressing any glitches.”
President Emmanuel Macron of France, who met with Biden in Washington this week, is among the European leaders who have complained the legislation, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, unfairly favors U.S.-based companies with subsidies and other protections.
The latest: Europe’s royalty meets America’s
Ahead a meeting with President Biden in Boston, Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales toured the JFK Library with a member of the closest thing the United States has to a royal family: a Kennedy.
In a tweet Friday, William posted pictures of the couple’s visit.
JFK’s Moonshot continues to inspire the work of the @EarthshotPrize, and so on our final day here in Boston it’s been a pleasure to visit @JFKLibrary to learn more about his life and legacy and spend time with his daughter, Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
And now to the Awards…! pic.twitter.com/vY1TpLXiWi
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy is the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, who, along with first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, helped glamorize the role of the presidency and touch off a decades-long fascination with the family.
This just in: Biden will not meet with Putin any time soon, White House says
The White House sought to clarify Friday that talks between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine are nowhere close to happening, citing Putin’s bombing of civilian infrastructure and indiscriminate killing of Ukrainians.
Biden said Thursday he would talk with Putin about ending the war if certain conditions were met but also said he had no immediate plans for a meeting. White House officials also have said they cannot take seriously any proposals or suggestions from Putin that he may be willing to negotiate, given his stepped-up aggression against Ukrainian civilians.
Noted: Silence from political leaders on antisemitism ‘is complicity,’ Biden says
President Biden took aim Friday at “political leaders” — presumably including former president Donald Trump — who have not forcefully rejected antisemitism, tweeting that their “silence is complicity.”
“I just want to make a few things clear,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.”
The tweet comes as Trump continues to face backlash for his dinner last week at his Mar-a-Lago estate with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and the rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, who has been vocally spouting antisemitic conspiracy theories.
The latest: Biden 2024 nomination plan faces state Democratic rebellion
Democrats on Friday faced a rebellion from their own leaders in New Hampshire, Nevada and Iowa, as party officials in these states said publicly that they were not prepared to accept President Biden’s push for a new presidential nominating calendar in 2024.
The Post’s Michael Scherer and Tyler Pager report that Biden shocked many in his party Thursday evening by asking for a complete remaking of the early nominating calendar, with South Carolina going first, followed by Nevada and New Hampshire on a joint date, then a primary in Georgia and one in Michigan.
Take a look: World Cup cheer? Biden sports Team USA on trip to Boston.
President Biden is showing his support for the U.S. men’s national soccer team, who play the Netherlands on Saturday at the World Cup in Qatar.
Team U.S.A. advanced to the Round of 16 after defeating Iran 1-0 on Tuesday. This is the United States’ 12th appearance in a World Cup tournament, and comes after the squad did not qualify for the 2018 tournament.
Analysis: A Democratic Party calendar that looks like the Democratic Party
The Washington Post reported Thursday that Biden is advocating an overhaul of the primary calendar so that South Carolina replaces Iowa as the first state where Democratic Party voters nominate their presidential candidate.
Philip Bump notes the move would make the earliest Democratic voters look more like the rest of the Democratic Party.
It’s a more racially integrated caucus than the Republican Party, but the first states to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries — Iowa and New Hampshire — do not reflect that.
Noted: Sen. Grassley says Biden is ‘kicking Iowa in the teeth’
As members of the Democratic National Committee considered a proposed shake-up to the 2024 presidential nominating calendar, a prominent Republican weighed in with his thoughts Friday.
In a tweet, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said that President Biden is “kicking Iowa in the teeth” with his proposal to have South Carolina start the process, a move that would mark the end of Iowa’s storied first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Grassley suggested the idea was particularly grievous given former president Barack Obama gained traction in his 2008 presidential bid with a win in Iowa. Obama, of course, would later pick Biden as his running mate.
The latest: Federal probe finds big solar firms flouted trade rules
The Biden administration found widespread flouting of trade laws by the world’s biggest solar manufacturers amid an investigation that has rattled the industry and will likely push companies to invest more heavily in producing their components in the United States.
The Post’s Evan Halper reports that four companies that account for as much as half of the solar cells imported into the United States are avoiding steep tariffs on solar products manufactured in China by using other nations as a pass-through in the production process, according to preliminary findings of a Department of Commerce investigation. Per Evan:
Noted: Railroad workers’ coalition says it was betrayed by both political parties
As President Biden signed legislation Friday averting a national rail strike, a group of railroad workers blasted both political parties for what it characterized as “despicable” treatment from both political parties.
The Railroad Workers United coalition took aim at Biden and Democrats for passage of a bill that denied unions “the right to bargain collectively and to freely engage in strike activity if and when the members see fit.” And the coalition, which draws members from multiple unions but does not represent the full array of them, was unhappy with the fate of a second bill, passed by the Democratic-led House but blocked by Republicans in the Senate, that would have added seven days of paid sick leave to the deal imposed upon them.
The latest: Biden doing ‘a major fundraiser’ for Warnock in Boston
It’s no secret that President Biden is considered a less effective surrogate for Democrats in Georgia than former president Barack Obama, who campaigned in the state on Thursday night for Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D-Ga.) ahead of his runoff against Republican Herschel Walker.
Asked by a reporter Friday why he isn’t going to Georgia to campaign, Biden first suggested he was before correcting himself to say he’s headed to Massachusetts to raise money to benefit Walker.
“I’m going to Georgia today to help Sen Warnock — not to Georgia … I’m doing a major fundraiser up in Boston today,” Biden said at the end of a signing ceremony at the White House for legislation that aims to avert a national rail strike.
The latest: Biden signs bill to avert rail strike, says he’ll work on paid sick leave
President Biden on Dec. 2 said he would continue to push for paid sick leave before signing a bill to avert a rail strike. (Video: The Washington Post)
President Biden said Friday that the legislation he was signing to avert a freight rail strike also prevented the country from a recession.
“The bill I’m about to sign ends a difficult rail dispute and helps our nation avoid what … without a doubt would have been an economic catastrophe at a very bad time in the calendar,” he said.
The Senate passed a bill Thursday binding rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement that companies and union leaders reached in September. Some of the members in several unions did not support the contract and threatened to strike beginning next week.
Analysis: Herschel Walker is a very bad candidate. Could he still win?
The (sort of) good news for Herschel Walker in a new CNN poll is that he’s just outside the margin of error in his Tuesday runoff with Sen. Raphael G. Warnock (D) in Georgia. The poll shows Warnock at 52 percent and Walker at 48 percent in a Senate race that will decide whether Democrats have a 50-50 majority or a 51-49 majority.
The Post’s Aaron Blake writes that the bad news is just about everything else in the poll. Per Aaron:
Indeed, if Walker is able to pull it off — which remains a possibility, for reasons we’ll get to — it will be despite himself and his highly flawed candidacy.
The poll confirms what others have: that like many GOP Senate candidates this year, voters simply don’t like him very much. What’s more, they clearly don’t see him as a particularly capable statesman.
While the head-to-head is close, a number of other measures reinforce that many people who might vote for Walker will be doing so because of partisanship, while holding their noses.
You can read Aaron’s full analysis here.
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