President Joe Biden delivered a defiant and unvarnished response: I did the right thing. And as messy as it was, things would have been worse if we waited.
“We succeeded in what we set out to do in Afghanistan over a decade ago. Then, we stayed for another decade. It was time to end the war,” Biden said. He noted that the mission had expanded far beyond the initial goal of responding to the 9/11 attacks, costing $300 million a day and more than 2,400 American lives in its 20-year duration.
An arrest warrant issued for the MAGA-asshole who accosted NBC’s Shaquille Brewster on live TV
The man, Benjamin Eugene Dagley, of Wooster, Ohio, will be charged with two counts of simple assault, one count of disturbing the peace and one count of violating an emergency curfew, Gulfport police said in a statement.
He could also be in violation of his probation in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, if he traveled without authorization, police said.
WASHINGTON — The sharp shock of the coronavirus recession pushed Social Security a year closer to insolvency but left Medicare’s exhaustion date unchanged, the government reported Tuesday in a counterintuitive assessment that deepens the uncertainty around the nation’s bedrock retirement programs.