Biden impeachment creates new political twist in unusual election

Washington, Sep 16 (Prensa Latina) After the announcement of an impeachment investigation against President Joe Biden and the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike hit the weekly media headlines.

September 16, 2023
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The news concerning the Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy unleashed a backlash reaction during all these days, among other things, for launching a proposal of such magnitude without being approved, and for part of the GOPers it is a waste of time.

“We have to focus on a lot of things,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) in stressing that she doesn’t see “glaring evidence that says we have to move forward, I didn’t see it in the Trump case and I voted against it. I don’t see it in this case.”

The announced impeachment investigation will be led by the chairmen of the House Oversight Committee James Comer in coordination with the chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the same legislative body Jim Jordan and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee Jason Smith.

This week, the strike conducted by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union members after failing to reach an agreement on a new contract with the so-called Big Three of the U.S. auto industry: Ford, General Motors and Stellantis received priority attention.

Biden made a brief statement from the White House on Friday admitting that UAW workers are frustrated and called on these big companies to “fairly share” their profits with them.

UAW members – which groups some 150,000 employees in the sector – want wage increases, more paid time and pension benefits, among other demands.

This is the first time in the UAW’s history that three companies have coincided in a strike, said UAW’s President Shawn Fain.

For Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne Clark, the UAW strike and, indeed, the “summer of strikes is the natural result of the Biden administration’s whole-of-government approach to promoting unionization at all costs.”

The digital site Common Dreams warned that workers on strike across the country are at their highest level since 1983.

A liberal group also filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block former President Donald Trump’s inclusion on the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota, the second major lawsuit in two weeks.

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