Jeddah: The third batch of another 135 stranded Indians, aboard the second IAF C-130J aircraft that had left strife-torn Sudan on Wednesday has reached Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah.
Earlier today, Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, received the second batch of the 148 evacuated Indians as the first IAF C-130J reached Jeddah airport.
Earlier, the naval vessel INS Sumedha reached Jeddah port with 278 evacuated passengers.
“#OperationKaveri in full swing. The second IAF C-130J flight departs Port Sudan for Jeddah, carrying another 135 passengers. This is the third batch of evacuees under #OperationKaveri,” MEA had tweeted.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Ministry of External Affairs tweeted that 121 passengers left by the IAF C-130J aircraft.
However, the MoS MEA later tweeted saying 148 Indians were evacuated in the second batch.
“First IAF C-130J aircraft under #OperationKaveri from Port Sudan carrying 148 Indians landed in Jeddah,” tweeted MoS MEA V Muraleedharan.
On Tuesday, the Union Minister of State for External Affairs inspected the transit facility at the International Indian School, Jeddah where Indians evacuated from Sudan will be received & put up briefly before arriving in India.
“Inspected transit facility @IndianPage, Jeddah where Indians evacuated from Sudan will be received & put up briefly before travel to India. It is fully equipped incl with mattresses, provisions, fresh meals, toilets, medical facilities, Wifi. Has 24*7 control room. #OperationKaveri,” the MoS wrote on Twitter.
Indian Navy’s INS Teg on Tuesday joined ‘Operation Kaveri’ to further facilitate the ongoing evacuation of Indians stranded in Sudan. The frigate on Tuesday arrived at Port Sudan with additional officials and essential relief supplies for stranded Indians, a senior MEA official said.
“INS Teg joins #OperationKaveri. Arrives at Port Sudan with additional officials and essential relief supplies for stranded Indians,” Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted on Tuesday.
“Will boost ongoing evacuation efforts by Embassy Camp Office at Port Sudan,” Mr Bagchi added. INS Teg is the fourth Talwar-class frigate constructed for the Indian Navy.
In a recent development, warring factions in Sudan have agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire on Monday after the US and Saudi Arabia mediated the truce while countries are engaged in evacuating their citizens from the country.
Happy to receive 278 Indians from Sudan onboard INS Sumedha at Jeddah Port. Glad Saudi Director General, MFA, Jeddah Branch H.E.Mazin Hamad Al Himly joined me
San Francisco: Microsoft-owned OpenAI has announced a new update that allows users to turn-off their chat history in its AI chatbot ChatGPT.
OpenAI said, it will not save users’ earlier conversations when the chat history option is disabled and will not use those conversations to train and improve its models.
“We’ve introduced the ability to turn off chat history in ChatGPT. Conversations that are started when chat history is disabled won’t be used to train and improve our models, and won’t appear in the history sidebar,” OpenAI said in a blogpost on Tuesday.
The new disable chat history option is now rolling out to all users which can be found in ChatGPT’s settings and can be changed at any time.
Moreover, the company said that “when chat history is disabled, we will retain new conversations for 30 days and review them only when needed to monitor for abuse, before permanently deleting them.”
OpenAI is also working on a new ChatGPT Business subscription for professionals who need more control over their data as well as enterprises seeking to manage their end users.
According to the company, ChatGPT Business will follow their API’s (Application Programming Interface) data usage policies, which means that end users’ data won’t be used to train their models by default.
The company plan to make ChatGPT Business available in the coming months.
New Delhi: Professional social networking platform LinkedIn now has 100 million members in India, up 19 per cent year-on-year, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella has informed.
The Microsoft-owned LinkedIn saw record engagement in the March quarter as more than 930 million members globally now turn to the professional social network to connect, learn, sell and get hired.
“Member growth accelerated for the seventh consecutive quarter as we expanded to new audiences. We now have 100 million members in India, up 19 per cent,” Nadella said during the company’s Q3 2023 earnings call late on Tuesday.
As Gen Z enters the workforce, “We saw 73 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of student sign-ups,” Nadella added.
LinkedIn Talent Solutions continues to help hirers connect to job seekers and professionals to build the skills they need to access opportunity.
“Our hiring business took share for the third consecutive quarter. The excitement around AI is creating new opportunities across every function from marketing, sales and finance to software development and security,” said Nadella.
The LinkedIn revenue increased 8 per cent in the March quarter for the tech giant. In 2016, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for more than $26 billion.
The platform has introduced new AI-powered features, including writing suggestions for member profiles and job descriptions and collaborative articles.
“Our exclusive partnership with Netflix brings differentiated premium video content to our ad network, and our new Copilot for the web is reshaping daily search and web habits,” Nadella informed.
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Abu Dhabi: Following the death of a 38-year-old expat from Kerala in a vessel capsizing incident, police in Sharjah have charged the management of the tourist boat company for negligence and arrested onboard staff members on duty, a media report said.
According to Khaleej Times, authorities in Sharjah have also launched a crackdown on several other tourist boat operators violating security and safety procedures.
Abhilash had gone boating with his colleagues when the accident took place off Khor Fakkan beach last week, killing him and injuring four others, including a seven-year-old child.
“The management of the tourist boat company behind the fatal accident has been charged with negligence and referred to the public prosecution,” the Khaleej Times reported, citing Sharjah Police.
Maj-Gen Saif Al Zari Al Shamsi, Commander-in-Chief of the Sharjah Police, said that following the incident, an emergency response team was dispatched to the site, and a probe by them revealed that overloading was the cause of the accident.
There were 16 passengers on the boat when the accident took place, whereas the vessel could accommodate a maximum of 10 people.
Multiple rescue teams, including the police and paramedics, rushed to the spot.
The investigation showed that the company took in more people to make higher profits, the Khaleej Times reported.
Following the probe’s outcome, the boat’s management and all staff on duty were arrested.
Police, meanwhile, have issued a warning to all other boat operators in the Emirate to carry out safety checks.
Maj-Gen Al Shamsi ordered the boat operators to strictly follow safety and security guidelines.
Abhilash’s body is presently being kept at the mortuary in Khor Fakkan Hospital.
He is survived by his wife and daughter.
(Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Hyderabad: A single lightning strike killed a 21-year-old shepherd on Tuesday when he was out to graze his goat herd in Rajura Village in Khanapur mandal.
The shepherd, identified as Pathakunta Mohan, was found dead under a tree after he took shelter during drizzles in the area.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday several parts of Kumram Bheem Asifabad, Adilabad, Nirmal and Mancherial districts witnessed a brief spell of rains, and hailstorms entangled with strong gales.
As a result, the electricity connectivity to some remote villages was affected. Maize grains also got drenched in Kubheer mandal.
Mumbai: Bigg Boss OTT fame and TV actress Uorfi Javed has been making waves with her bold and unconventional fashion choices. She often gets trolled for her experimental looks. On Tuesday, Uorfi Javed found herself embroiled in a heated argument with a restaurant manager over a reservation.
Despite being informed that there were no reservations available, the actress lost her cool and began lashing out at the manager. A video of the incident has been shared by Bollywood’s ace photographer Viral Bhayani. In the viral, Uorfi is heard saying, ” Mera naam jante ho.. Uorfi Javed… mere liye na jagah ban jaati hai, jaake dekho.” As manager responded that there are no seats, Uorfi yelled, “Ye seat ka natak nhi hai, ye kapdho ka natak hai, ye mujhe mere kapdho ke vajah se mana kar rahe hain. Sabh samjhti hun mai.” Watch the video below.
Following the incident, Uorfi took to social media to call out the restaurant, claiming that she was denied entry because of her fashion choices. “WTF! Is this really 21st century Mumbai?!?! I was denied entry at a restaurant today. It’s okay if you don’t agree with my fashion choices. It’s NOT to treat me differently for it. And if you are, admit it! Don’t give some lame excuses. Pissed off! Please look into it. @zomato #mumbai,” the actress wrote in her Instagram stories.
On the professional front, Uorfi Javed was last seen on Splitsvilla X4 as a mischief-maker. She rose to fame with her stint on Bigg Boss OTT season 1.
Hyderabad: The Regional Passport Office (RPO), Hyderabad, has taken a significant step towards providing convenience to passport applicants by deciding to conduct special passport drives at five Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) in Telangana on Saturdays. This initiative is set to start on April 29, 2023.
Of the five PSKs, three are located in Hyderabad, namely, Begumpet, Ameerpet, and Tolichowki. The remaining two PSKs are situated in Karimnagar and Nizamabad. This move is expected to benefit a large number of applicants who have been facing difficulties in getting slots for passports and passport-related services due to the long waiting times and heavy rush at these centers.
To start with, the Hyderabad RPO has decided to release 3056 appointments under all categories, including Tatkal, normal, and PCC, for April 29, 2023.
It has been reported that the appointments for the following Saturday will be released on the official website of the passport at 4 pm on Thursday. This means that applicants need to keep a watch on the website and book their appointments as soon as they are made available to avoid missing out on the chance.
This move comes as a relief to many who have been struggling to get an appointment at the PSKs due to the high demand for passport services.
Apart from the special passport drives, the Hyderabad RPO has also recently announced that the PSKs under its jurisdiction will release 500 additional appointments daily for two weeks, starting April 27, 2023. This decision has been taken to address the long waiting times and cater to the increasing demand for passport services.
“It’s one of the great hesitations people have, and it’s not just chronological age, it’s the perceived age, the performance,” said Dave Carney, a longtime Republican consultant who hasn’t decided whom to support in 2024.
Both Biden and Trump battled questions of their physical and mental acuity while in office with each insisting that their performance underscored their capacity to handle the rigors of the job. The 2024 election, likewise, will provide a window through which to judge them.
But an actual full-on campaign won’t start for quite some time. Trump, who faces a crowded Republican primary field, has begun holding campaign events and the occasional rally. And Biden, who faces no real intra-party challenge, has begun raising money and will have one-off political events, but his aides have signaled he won’t begin barnstorming until next year.
When the campaign does actually begin in earnest, both sides pledge it will not be an exercise in tapioca, “Murder, She Wrote” reruns, and early bedtimes.
Despite an age gap of only three years, the chatter around age looms larger for Biden, who moves noticeably slower than a few years ago. Members of his inner circle know the toll the job takes on any president, and they have seen him grow more easily tired.
If elected, he would be 86 at the end of his second term, nearly a decade older than the U.S. male life expectancy. Poll after poll shows that voters — including Democrats who approve of the job he has done — are not sure they want him to run again, with most citing his age as their top concern.
But Biden’s allies and most Democrats believe he is very much still up for the job. Biden has received clean bills of health from his doctors, and his advisers believe the 2020 race made clear that voters have grown more comfortable with older people in positions of power, whether in politics or business. “His age is not a surprise,” one adviser said recently.
For Biden’s team, age can often be reframed as wisdom. They argue he has been a steady hand during difficult times. And they tout an enviable legislative scorecard — including wins on infrastructure, guns and climate change. They also believe that the threat posed by Trump to the nation’s democracy will turn out voters, even if some of them have reservations about Biden.
“I love what the president says himself. He has a line where he says, ‘Just watch me,’” said Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), one of the campaign co-chairs. “Just watching what has happened just in the first two years, and then knowing what his plan is, as we move forward, we know that he is more than capable.”
But aides acknowledge that Biden’s final campaign will be more rigorous than the one he ran in 2020. That year, candidates were sidelined for months by the pandemic, with Biden setting up shop in his Delaware home to host virtual events, allowing him to largely avoid unscripted moments and the gaffes for which he is famous. This time, Biden will need to hit the road, though some of the travel grind is offset by having Air Force One at his disposal.
Aides are mindful of the schedule’s toll on Biden. He has few early morning events, allowing him to sleep in and exercise before starting most days. Breaks are built into his schedule, and down days are often incorporated after travel.
“Whether it was in Kiev, barnstorming the country highlighting the manufacturing jobs he’s bringing back, averting international crises in the wee hours of the morning like he did in Bali, or putting Republicans on defense over Social Security in the State of the Union, the American people and the world see his qualified leadership,” Jen O’Malley Dillon, senior White House adviser, said in a statement. “And younger aides have to push themselves to keep up with that pace.”
White House aides also point out that other presidents took down days after foreign travel and that Biden has kept a busier travel schedule so far this year than Obama did in 2011, the equivalent year of his presidency.
Trump, meanwhile, has previously tried to make Biden’s age an issue, with his nickname of “Sleepy Joe” and unsubtle assertions that the incumbent has lost a step. He has circulated memes of the president losing his balance walking into Air Force One and has called Biden “cognitively impaired” in rally speeches.
But those charges didn’t work in 2020 and Trump himself faces questions about his own age and fitness for the job. More recently, Trump has tried to distinguish between age and mental acuity, saying in interviews that he has friends in their 80s and 90s, like 93-year-old Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, who are “100 percent.”
Trump kept up a more robust campaign schedule than Biden did in 2020. While Biden has worked and traveled — he journeyed to Ireland this month and is set for summits in Japan and Australia next month — Trump has been based at his resort in Palm Beach and has made frequent trips to early voting states. On Thursday, he heads to New Hampshire.
“President Trump continues to dominate in poll after poll, both in the primary and general elections. There is no other candidate in history who has the energy and stamina President Trump has, and he will out-work and out-pace Joe Biden to Save America,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Aides to Trump argue that the former president stays busy politicking from his clubs where he films policy videos, works the phones, and hosts fundraising events. And while he isn’t known to have the healthiest diet, Trump does keep active. In the morning he often zips around in his golf cart and plays nine holes before heading to his Mar-a-Lago office, where he’ll meet with advisers, lawmakers and candidates seeking his support, and he’s often out late into the evening socializing with club members and playing DJ for guests on the private patio.
As the campaign heats up, aides to Trump say he will keep a busy travel schedule and continue to criss-cross the country via his private plane to events and unannounced stops where he can show off his retail politics skills. They believe the campaign schedule alone will be an effective contrast with Biden — a chance to portray Trump as sharper than Biden in speeches and interviews.
“We really don’t have to say much,” said an adviser to Trump. “The contrast in energy and stamina will be demonstrated — and is being demonstrated right now — and that’s a contrast that will play itself out on the campaign trail.” Both Trump and his team have pointed to Biden’s presidential announcement, which came in the form of a short video instead of an event, as an example.
“Trump is older, too, but he doesn’t act as old as President Biden, he comes across as more vigorous and having more energy and that helps him avoid the same kinds of conversations,” said Carney. “And everyone else is going to talk about how we need a new generation, or some cliche along these lines for the rest of the campaign.”
Both Biden and Trump do face pressure from within their party to cede the way for younger lawmakers to take over. The president had framed himself as a bridge to the Democratic Party’s next generation. And GOP presidential hopefuls like Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, and Nikki Haley, 51, have framed their candidacies as a needed refresh for the party.
Haley has even proposed mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75. Trump then went even further, saying that anyone running for office should face not only a mental competency test but a physical test as well.
Biden’s entrance into the race all but ensures that conversations that may have otherwise been considered taboo or even downright ageist will now become a centerpiece of a presidential campaign. Indeed, we may already have passed that point. During an interview Monday with Newsmax, Trump even darkly predicted Biden would not make it to the general election.
“It was hard to believe four years ago, but he was in the basement … it seems to me somewhere along the line something will happen,” Trump said.
Jennifer Haberkorn contributed to this report.
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Here’s our verdict, using the following scale: Kept his promise, in progress, stalled, broke his promise.
Combating Covid-19
GRADE: KEPT HIS PROMISE
What Biden pledged: “When I’m elected your president, I’m going to act, and I’m going to act on day one. Folks, we’re going to act to get this Covid under control. … I’m never going to raise the white flag and surrender. We’re going to beat this virus. We’re going to get it under control, I promise you.”
What he’s done: Biden rolled out a far-reaching plan to rein in the pandemic on his first day in office, prioritizing efforts to mass-vaccinate the country and spark a rapid economic recovery that saw significant initial success.
The administration suffered multiple setbacks in the following months — notably misjudging both Covid’s ability to evolve and Americans’ willingness to keep up the fight against a deadly virus. But Biden did manage to blunt the pandemic threat through multiple rounds of shots and treatments that have allowed most people to return to their pre-pandemic lives.
The White House is now poised to end the Covid national emergency in May, in what amounts to the symbolic end of the Covid crisis. Deaths from the virus are now down to their lowest point since the early days of the pandemic. Still, Biden’s inability to stamp out Covid more completely means he will face the ongoing threat of a resurgence.
Rebuilding the economy
GRADE: Kept HIS PROMISE
What Biden pledged: “We’re going to invest in infrastructure, clean energy and manufacturing, and so much more. We’ll create millions of good paying American jobs and get the job market back in the path to full employment.”
What he’s done: Biden presided over a swift economic recovery buoyed by bills he championed allocating billions of dollars in Covid aid, as well as major investments in manufacturing and infrastructure projects.
Three years after Covid shuttered much of the country, the unemployment rate is near 50-year lows, the economy has added tens of millions of jobs and wages are rising on average.
But high inflation through much of 2022 overshadowed those gains for many, denting Biden’s economic record and miring the administration for a time in debates over whether its stimulus efforts were too aggressive. The White House has since emphasized various cost-cutting initiatives aimed at balancing out rising prices, most notably winning reductions in certain prescription drug costs. The pace of inflation is now cooling, though not enough yet to fully alleviate concerns.
Ending gun violence
GRADE: STALLED
What Biden pledged: “No one needs an AR-15. … I promise you, I will get these weapons of war off the street again and out of our communities.”
What he’s done: Biden oversaw passage of the most comprehensive gun safety legislation in nearly three decades. The only problem: It fell well short of taking the kinds of decisive actions that he pledged to deliver on the campaign trail.
The gun safety law passed in June 2022 made only limited improvements to background checks and did nothing to restrict access to assault weapons. And despite Biden’s promise to ban those weapons in the aftermath of several mass shootings over the last year, he’s made no progress toward convincing Congress to act.
The White House in the interim has issued a range of executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence, but even Biden himself recently admitted he’s effectively powerless on the issue, saying he’s “gone the full extent of my executive authority to do, on my own, anything about guns.”
Restoring U.S. leadership abroad
GRADE: Kept HIS PROMISE
What Biden pledged: “As president, I will ensure that democracy is once again the watchword of U.S. foreign policy, not to launch some moral crusade, but because it’s in our enlightened self-interest. We have to restore our ability to rally the free world so we can once more make a stand upon new fields of action together to face new challenges.”
What he’s done: The Biden administration angered its allies and hurt its global credibility by botching the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which the Taliban reconquered in 2021. Barely six months later, after Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden formed a global coalition that has held together through more than a year of fighting, providing Ukraine with the aid necessary to defend its territory far more effectively than originally expected.
That alliance has shown signs of shakiness at times, but has never cracked, winning Biden praise both at home and abroad for rebuilding America’s reputation as a diplomatic force.
Yet that’s a job that will only grow more challenging as the war drags on and with no clear consensus on an endgame in sight. Biden must also repair the damage done by an embarrassing leak of classified documents that illustrated spying efforts on a handful of allies and concerns about the state of the war in Ukraine.
Strengthening voting rights
Grade: stalled
What Biden pledged: “One thing the Senate and the president can do right away is pass the bill to restore the Voting Rights Act. … If they don’t, I’ve been saying all along, it’s one of the first things I’ll do as president if elected. We can’t let the fundamental right to vote be denied.”
What he’s done: Biden’s attempts to muster momentum for legislation strengthening voting rights fell flat, even after he backed abolishing the filibuster to pass it.
The president later signed the Electoral Count Act, which clarified the counting and certification process for electoral votes, but the administration has made little major headway on an issue that Biden made a central element of his 2020 campaign.
Judging by Biden’s reelection announcement video, voting rights will play a prominent role in his 2024 run as well. But there’s little apparent ability to do much in the interim that would help make good on his initial pledge.
Protecting access to abortion
Grade: In progress
What Biden pledged: “We’re in a situation where I would codify Roe v. Wade as defined by Casey. It should be the law, and there’s no reason why, if the Supreme Court makes the judgment that everybody’s worried about with these appeals going to the Supreme Court, that in exchange, I would codify Roe v. Wade and Casey.”
What he’s done: The Supreme Court ended up making the judgment that Democrats were worried about, striking down the constitutional right to abortion. But though Biden has advocated codifying Roe v. Wade since then, he doesn’t have the votes to do it.
The White House has instead done as much as it believes it can do on its own, including unraveling Trump-era restrictions on family planning funding and taking steps to protect access to medication abortion and help women travel across state borders to obtain the procedure. It’s also defending against other lawsuits aimed at further restricting access to reproductive health.
But those threats are ongoing, and will continue to test Biden’s desire to balance safeguarding abortion access with his reluctance to take more drastic steps pushed by activists that he worries could further draw the administration into a protracted legal battle.
Expanding health care
Grade: KEPT his promise
What Biden pledged: “I’ll not only restore Obamacare, I’ll build on it. … I’m going to increase subsidies to lower your premiums, deductibles, out-of-pocket expenses, out-of-pocket spending, surprise billing. I’m going to lower prescription drugs by 60 percent, and that’s the truth.”
What he’s done: Biden followed through on multiple health care promises with the passage of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, expanding Obamacare subsidies and placing new restrictions on pharmaceutical prices.
Those provisions fell somewhat short of what Biden aspired to — placing an expiration date on the subsidy expansion and limiting a cap on insulin prices to only certain patients. But the IRA did also accomplish a longtime Democratic priority: Empowering Medicare to negotiate the cost of certain drugs.
Biden must still ensure those policies are effectively implemented. But taken together, they’re expected to make coverage more affordable and accessible for millions of people.
Overhauling immigration policies
GRADE: Broke his promise
What Biden pledged: “We’re going to restore our moral standing in the world and our historic role as a safe haven for refugees and asylum seekers, and those fleeing violence and persecution.”
What he’s done: In an approach that’s dismayed Democrats and immigration advocates, Biden maintained the strict Trump-era border policy known as Title 42 that has allowed the government to quickly expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The administration now plans to lift Title 42 next month, though there are few signs that Biden will significantly loosen his approach to immigration. A new policy rolled out earlier this year would largely prohibit migrants from applying for asylum at the southern border.
And though Biden rolled back some of former President Donald Trump’s most stringent immigration policies, his administration’s approach grew more restrictive after record numbers of migrants began arriving at the border. Biden has encouraged Congress to negotiate more comprehensive legislation to overhaul the immigration system, but there has been no progress toward accomplishing that.
Tackling climate change
GRADE: Kept his promise
What Biden pledged: “My time table for results is my first four years as president, the jobs that we’ll create, the investments we’ll make, and the irreversible steps we’ll take to mitigate and adapt to the climate change and put our nation on the road to net zero emissions no later than 2050.”
What he’s done: Biden is following through on his climate goals largely through a range of investments in the IRA designed to accelerate the nation’s transition toward clean energy.
Experts project the legislation could help cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by up to 42 percent by the end of the decade, compared to 2005 levels. Further regulatory changes that the administration plans to impose could help Biden meet his pledge of cutting total emissions in half by 2030. Biden also took unilateral steps requiring the federal government to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
But those are long-term projects, and will require the administration to implement all the new policies — and do it fast enough for them to have the necessary environmental impact to meet Biden’s timeline. There are also lingering questions over how the White House will juggle its climate ambitions with ongoing fossil fuel projects, after Biden broke a commitment to halt drilling on federal lands, most notably by approving the Willow oil and gas project in Alaska.
Expanding child and elder care access
Grade: Stalled
What Biden pledged: “My childcare plan is straightforward, straightforward. Every 3- and 4-year-old child will get access to free high quality preschool like students have here. And low- and middle-income families won’t spend more than 7 percent of their income on childcare for children under the age of five.”
What he’s done: The president’s vast plan to expand the “care economy” was cast aside during negotiations over the IRA and has yet to recover. Once a centerpiece of his vision for rebuilding the post-2020 economy, lawmakers axed policies to build out access to child-care and long-term care over concerns it would be too costly.
And despite Biden’s continued support for revisiting those efforts, there’s been no significant renewed push yet to get those policies through a divided Congress. Instead, Biden recently signed a series of executive orders directing federal agencies to try to make care more accessible.
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