WASHINGTON—September keeps getting worse for President Biden. Hours after his son was indicted last week, auto workers went on strike, walking out of plants owned by three major car companies. A possible government shutdown looms at the end of the month, and House Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry. Gas prices are rising, and Biden’s poll numbers remain underwater as he campaigns for a second term. Biden has responded by portraying Republicans as more focused on theatrics than legislation. The White House pointed to Biden’s actions in September as evidence...

Thursday’s indictment of presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden on three gun-related criminal counts is the latest twist in the long, winding and rapidly escalating saga that is the Biden crime family. The indictment, served up by U.S. Attorney — and now “special counsel,” despite the fact 28 Code of Federal Regulations Sec. 600.3 requires that a special counsel be “selected from outside the United States Government” — David C. Weiss, comes a month and a half after Weiss’ obfuscatory plea agreement was summarily rejected by Judge Maryellen Noreika. That prior...

New polling by CNN and show the president in a deadheat with the criminal former president, and this has inspired another tiresome round of concern-trolling among people who know better but who also can’t be trusted to behave accordingly because they are professionally and politically incentivized to pretend that they don’t know any better. But instead of talking yet again about the failings of the Washington press corps, I want to talk about a factual aspect of this makebelieve, which is that normal Democratic voters appear to be truly uncomfortable...

I live about a mile from where the Texas Senate voted today not to remove Ken Paxton from office. No surprise there (the surprise was the House vote to impeach him, even though their case was well-founded). But it invites confusion to use legal-system terms to describe the result. This vote is not an “acquittal” (i.e., “Not guilty”). It just means that most of the GOP-heavy Senate decided that his misdeeds were not enough to justify removing him from office. There wasn’t much defense of the misdeeds themselves, and Paxton...

President Joe Biden’s border chief has used a new visa program to quietly extract many police officers and local leaders from Haiti, leaving the rest of the country’s population abandoned in anarchy and gang wars. Border Chief Alejandro Mayorkas established the Haitian visa program in January amid the anarchy accelerated by the failure of Haiti’s politicians to help elect a new president following the July 2021 murder of the country’s elected president.

Hunter Biden’s defense against the latest federal charges puts the president’s son at the center of a roiling debate over who is allowed to have a gun after the US Supreme Court upended the Second Amendment legal landscape a year ago. A federal grand jury indicted Hunter Biden Thursday on charges that he lied about his drug use in order to get a firearm and that he unlawfully possessed the gun while addicted to drugs. His lawyers immediately signaled they might bring a constitutional challenge to the indictment, noting recent...

Sign up to receive the Balance of Power newsletter in your inbox, and follow Bloomberg Politics on Twitter and Facebook for more. With their push to impeach President Joe Biden and their threat to shut down the government, Republican hardliners in Washington made clear this week who’s setting their agenda: Donald Trump. The former president in recent weeks has publicly called on House Republicans to impeach Biden, and he held a private dinner with Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene — a vocal impeachment proponent — at his New Jersey golf...

WASHINGTON – Hunter Biden’s indictment on federal gun charges Thursday sets up the potential for a trial overlapping with his father’s re-election campaign. Best case scenario? The charges are resolved quickly. Worst case scenario? Hunter Biden is found guilty shortly before voters decide whether to give President Joe Biden a second term. While the legal timeline is difficult to predict, Hunter Biden’s attorney doesn’t appear to be aiming for a quick resolution. Usually, a trial date is set about 100 days from an indictment. Abbe Lowell has named several ways...

We’ve spent a lot of time this week talking about Hunter Biden and impeachment, which is fair enough. I just wish we’d found more time to discuss another story, because it painted an alarming picture of what’s happening to millions of low-income Americans ― and made it very clear which party’s leaders want to do something about it. I’m talking about the annual U.S. Census Bureau report on income and health insurance, which came out Tuesday and which my colleague Jonathan Nicholson summarized for HuffPost. The report found that the...

WASHINGTON—House Republican leaders are telling GOP lawmakers facing tough re-election campaigns in 2024: Trust us on impeachment. Top Republicans are saying they won’t force members to take a vote to impeach the president unless they build enough evidence. Still, the recent opening of an impeachment investigation into President Biden could make life more difficult for Republicans in competitive districts—including more than a dozen won by Biden in 2020—as they run to keep their seats in 2024 and preserve the GOP’s thin majority. In a recent Wall Street Journal poll, a...