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President Biden's belligerent State of the Union address Tuesday night ushered in not just a new year, but another presidency.
And the Republican Party is willing to accept it.
The House Oversight Committee will hold its first hearing on Wednesday into its investigation into Biden and his family, where former Twitter executive Hunter Hunter will ask questions about media coverage of Biden's laptop. This is the beginning of a series of investigations into the president, which the Republican Party promised after taking office in the House of Representatives in November .
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What is happening in politics:
- Mitt Romney on George Santos: Utah Sen. Mitt Romney joined a growing number of Republicans in his State of the Union address in rejecting freshman George Santos (RNY, RNY.), calling him a "sick puppy." .
- As he prepares for his 2024 candidacy, Biden is focused on working-class messages .
- Biden Administration Launch: Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to hold events in at least 20 states to highlight Biden's agenda.
©Patrick Semansky/AP. Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, flies with the President on Air Force One on February 4, 2023 in Syracuse, New YorkSmart analytics delivered to your inbox: Sign up for the OnPolitics newsletter
Former Twitter exec on laptop removal: "Decisions aren't easy"
Former Twitter executives told a House panel that decisions about what to block on the social media site are difficult, but they were hesitant to remove news from Hunter Biden's laptop in 2020.
Former Twitter general counsel James Baker told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that there was no collusion with any government agency or political campaign over how the messages on the laptop were handled.
Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of global trust and security, said in the second half of 2021 that the company would remove dangerous messages and 33,000 accounts for promoting terrorism or violent extremism and 100,000 for promoting the sale of illegal goods and services. deleted too many accounts.
"The decisions made here are unfair and hindsight is 20/20," said Roth, who disagreed with the removal of the laptop story.
-Bart Jansen
White House: Twitter wiretaps at home and Hunter Biden's 'weird political affair'
When the White House learned that Twitter had deleted the news from Hunter Biden's laptop, the House of Representatives condemned it as a "bizarre political ploy" after "long-discredited conspiracy theories."
Biden spokesman Ian Sams said Labor remains ahead of bipartisan priorities such as fighting inflation, fighting anger and investing in manufacturing. Instead, "the Republicans in the House of Representatives see it as their priority to create a weird political situation," he said.
“As the president said and emphasized, Americans expect their leaders to work together in a bipartisan manner on the issues that most affect their lives and families, not attack their families with long-debunked conspiracy theories,” Sams said. . .
-Bart Jansen
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Watch Biden's 2023 State of the Union address
President Joe Biden praised his administration's accomplishments in Tuesday's State of the Union address and proposed the agenda for Congress this year.
But the president ignored important context in his nearly 72-minute speech.
USA TODAY confirmed 15 topics from Biden's speech. That's what's missing.
- USA TODAY Staff
GOP clashes with Biden over Social Security and Medicare during debt ceiling debate
"Some Republicans want to get rid of Medicare and Social Security," Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, D-Ga., rose from her seat in the back of the House, angering President Joe Biden as she discussed the need to raise the ceiling Of the debt. To avoid a US default
Social Security and Medicare are among the most expensive and prominent programs of the federal government and have long been the source of heated debates about the national debt and federal spending.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Republicans won't cut programs, but Democrats say the math will force those cuts if the GOP pushes for spending cuts.
--Erin Mansfield, Candy Woodall
Mitt Romney: Rep. George Santos is a 'sick dog.'
In his State of the United States address, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, RN.Y. A growing number of Republicans believe that George Santos should not be in Congress.
Santos admitted to embellishing parts of his personal and professional resume, but Romney said that was a lie, not embellishment. He says that he is going to decorate - he means that he bought A instead of A. - It is a lie to say that you graduated from technical school and did not enter the university.
After the speech, Romney told reporters: "If I was ashamed, I wouldn't be here.
-Woodall Sweets
Read more: Marjorie Taylor Green, other Republicans fight Biden on Social Security, Medicare
Biden focuses on working-class message as he prepares for 2024 bid
As President Joe Biden said, the country is at a tipping point. The same is true of the Biden presidency, who is preparing to run for a second term.
Biden's descriptions of how infrastructure investments will benefit middle-class families don't sit well with working people, especially white voters without a college education. Over the past decade, many have left the Democratic Party and offered lukewarm support for Biden in the last presidential election.
Ahead of his expected re-election announcement in the coming weeks, Biden is making a concerted effort to win back working-class Americans. The first stop on his tour after the states will be a union-run training and education center in Wisconsin outlining the challenges Democrats will face in the 2024 election, with freelancers and blue-collar workers hit hard by the cuts. . American production.
- Francesca Chambers and Joey Garrison
'Four more years': Biden hints at 2024 during meeting with Democratic leaders in Philadelphia
Proceeds: Twitter can 'remove and delegitimize' information on Hunter Biden's laptop
Rep. James Comer plans to open a hearing on Twitter on deleting data from Hunter Biden's laptop, arguing that the social media platform made censorship decisions in the past and cooperated with the FBI to monitor communications.
Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, will say the FBI advised senior Twitter officials to question the credibility of any story about Hunter Biden as possible Russian disinformation. But Comer, D-Kyiv, said the result was the "shutdown and legitimization" of information about the Biden family's alleged business plans.
“Twitter was a private company that today, under the leadership of our witnesses, was used by the federal government to do what it constitutionally cannot do: limit free speech,” Comer is expected to say in a statement. "He conspired with the FBI to monitor the protected speech of Americans and received millions of dollars for it."
-Bart Jansen
After speech, Biden visits Wisconsin and Florida
Biden administration officials will begin work this week with events in at least 20 states to highlight parts of the president's message.
Biden himself will outline his economic agenda in Wisconsin on Wednesday and discuss Social Security and Medicare in Florida on Thursday.
Vice President Kamala Harris visits Georgia and Minnesota. Several other cabinet members are also stationed across the country.
-Maureen Group
'We're changing plans': Biden says Democrats need to focus on working-class voters
House panels to question former Twitter execs on Hunter Biden's laptop cover
On Tuesday, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee will hear for the first time from three former Twitter executives about deleting data from Hunter Biden's laptop during an investigation into possible influence on his father, President Joe Biden.
Twitter initially blocked the distribution of New York Post articles on a laptop in October 2020, weeks before the election, which the former chief executive called "unacceptable." Committee Chairman Rep. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., wants to speak with Joel Roth, a former trust and security official; Vijaya Gadde, former Legal Director; and James Baker, former attorney general, about the incident.
But Joe Biden denied that his son was involved in or profited from business in Ukraine or China. Hunter Biden's lawyers called for a criminal investigation into the release of the laptop's contents. However, Democrats have called the investigation "hyperpartisan" after dismissing conspiracy theories.
-Bart Jansen
Sanders: Biden "Failed" the American People; - asks the "new generation".
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the nation's youngest governor at 40 from Arkansas, noted that 80-year-old Joe Biden is the oldest president in history and said it was time for a "new generation" of Republican leadership.
“Biden and the Democrats have failed them,” Sanders said in the official GOP response to Biden's State of the Union address. "Now is the time to change."
Governor's Ark. Speaking from his Little Rock mansion, Sanders addressed national issues like inflation, immigration and crime. Sanders, who has also criticized the president's foreign policy, said Biden is "unfit" to be commander-in-chief.
“We will hold the Biden administration to account,” Sanders said, referring to the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
-David Jackson
Read more: Republicans react to Biden's State of the Union address, vow to block the president's agenda
Local Intel Chairman: Chinese Spy Balloon Targets Several Sensitive Missile and Nuclear Sites
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, said the Chinese surveillance balloon maneuvered over sensitive US military sites as well as passing over Montana before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
"If you follow the trajectory of this balloon and put the X where the missile defense site is, the actual nuclear weapons infrastructure, that's where you're going to go," Turner told reporters. "So I think the natural conclusion is that this is intelligence gathering to try to somehow influence the command and control of our missile defense systems and our nuclear weapons."
Turner did not elaborate on that or share other details of the Chinese soccer investigation, citing the confidential nature of the information in some cases. But he said the US intelligence community should brief him and other G8 members of Congress later this week on efforts to obtain and recover intelligence.
-Josh Meyer
Read More: Defense Department Didn't Think Spy Balloon Was A Military Threat When It Was Discovered
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: House Republicans Refute Officials on Twitter Over Hunter Biden Laptop Story, One Day After SOTU, SOTU: Real-Time Updates.
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