Tag: White House

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

  Biden will have an all-female communications team at the White House

  

  President-elect Joe Biden is set to hire an all-female communications team, The Washington Post reported Sunday. Biden selected Democratic spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki as his White House press secretary. Psaki also briefly served as communications director for the Obama administration and as a spokeswoman for former State Secretary John Kerry.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Trump will leave the White House when the Electoral College votes for Joe Biden

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for president-elect Joe Biden, the closest he has come to conceding the Nov 3 election, even as he reiterated his unfounded claims of massive voter fraud.

• Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Biden names chief of staff a close ally with deep experience on Capitol Hill

  

  US President-elect Joe Biden named Ron Klain, a veteran Democratic operative and a decades-long confidant, to be his White House chief of staff Wednesday evening, moving quickly to put in place the senior leaders of the government he will lead early next year.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Biden makes a conciliatory speech, but no victory celebration as vote counting continues

  

  Democrat Joe Biden said on Friday that he was going to win the U.S. presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although television networks held off from declaring him the victor as officials continued to count votes.

• Monday, November 2nd 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Correct predictor of US presidential election since 1984, sees Biden in the White House

  

  An American University professor, Allan Lichtman, who correctly predicted the outcome of every US presidential election since 1984 has weighed in on the outcome of the 2020 election, predicting a Joe Biden victory.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Trump declares himself immune, which means “having really a protective glow”

  

  President Donald Trump on Sunday declared himself immune to COVID-19 and ready for a fight as his White House race against surging rival Joe Biden enters its critical final weeks.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Trump returns to the White House telling Americans “don't let the virus dominate your lives”

  

  President Donald Trump told Americans “to get out there” and not fear COVID-19 as he returned to the White House on Monday after checking out of the hospital where he was treated for the disease.

• Monday, October 5th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Trump drives past supporters outside the hospital; US president could return to the White House on Monday

  

  United States President Donald Trump drove past supporters on Sunday outside the hospital where he was being treated for COVID-19, after announcing on Twitter a “surprise visit” to his backers.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Concern in the White House about the presidential election; Trump in quarantine at Army hospital

  

  White House officials sought to project an air of business as usual on Friday despite President Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, but aides privately expressed concern about the presidential election and showed signs of rising worry about the coronavirus.

• Wednesday, September 16th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  New IDB president pledges to help Argentina with the “long arduous” IMF negotiations

  

  Mauricio Claver-Carone, the White House official elected to lead Latin America’s regional development bank, said he aims to play a constructive role in Argentina’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.