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Brittany Shepherd is a national politics reporter for Yahoo News, where she focuses on the intersection of politics, culture, and the 2020 presidential election. Shepherd previously covered similar overlaps at Washingtonian magazine and the Independent Journal Review, where she was a White House correspondent. She is constantly on the search for authentic New York pizza in Washington, DC.
Yahoo NewsBiden at pains to explain how he'll convince Manchin and Sinema to support budget and infrastructure bills
At a town hall on Thursday, President Biden was asked about contentious budget negotiations with Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. While he expressed some confidence that a deal could be reached with the two moderates, he also made clear how much work remained.
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His budget plan stalled in Congress, Biden pitches child care expansion
With negotiations on his domestic agenda continuing in Congress, President Biden took to the road Friday to pitch the importance of improving government-funded child care programs in the U.S.
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Buttigieg faces test as supply chains falter
As the White House struggles to repair the nation’s broken supply chain ahead of the holiday shopping rush, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is facing his first major test as a Cabinet secretary.
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Biden defends use of vaccination requirements to end pandemic: 'We have to beat this thing'
During a Thursday trip to Chicago, President Biden defended his use of vaccination requirements to try to end the coronavirus pandemic.
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Biden hits the road to promote agenda stalled in Congress
On Tuesday, President Biden traveled to a union workers' facility outside Detroit and made his first voter-facing address regarding his Build Back Better agenda since congressional Democrats gridlocked over it last week.
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With Biden's agenda hanging in the balance, progressive frustration with Sinema boils over
There’s one big question on Democrats’ minds in Washington: What does Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., want?
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Biden gets Pfizer booster shot
President Biden received his COVID-19 booster shot on camera Monday afternoon, a few days after the head of the federal agency responsible for determining eligibility expanded booster access for several groups based on age, health and occupation.
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Biden meets with congressional Dems as his domestic agenda hangs in balance
With his domestic agenda imperiled by disagreements within his party, President Biden is set to meet with moderate and progressive Democrats on Wednesday in a bid to bring the two sides together ahead of a looming vote on infrastructure spending.
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White House may face union pushback on vaccine mandate for federal workers
Some of the country’s largest federal employee unions are split in their reaction to the White House’s latest executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccination for federal employees and contractors.
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White House slams Texas Gov. Abbott's defense of abortion law with no exceptions for rape
The White House discounted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pledge that his state would work to “eliminate all rapists from the streets” after he signed a statewide ban on abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy while offering no exceptions for victims of rape or incest.
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Biden on Ida's devastation: 'Extreme storms in the climate crisis are here'
Hours after the remnants of Hurricane Ida unleashed record rainfall across the Northeastern United States, killing at least 45 people and resulting in millions of dollars in damages, President Biden said the country was seeing the consequences of “the climate crisis.”
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Biden says restrictive Texas abortion law will 'significantly impair women's access to the health care they need'
President Biden said on Wednesday that the newly implemented Texas law that restricts access to potentially lifesaving abortion procedures “blatantly violates the constitutional right” established under Roe v. Wade.
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'He does not want them to live on the earth anymore': Psaki clarifies Biden's ISIS-K threat
White House press secretary Jen Psaki clarified Friday that President Biden’s deadly threat toward ISIS-K terrorists who killed 13 U.S. service members in a suicide bombing attack in Kabul was not merely theoretical.
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Biden promises to hunt down terrorists behind devastating Kabul attack
Speaking to the American people in the wake of a devastating terror attack at the Kabul airport that left scores dead on Thursday –– including numerous U.S. troops –– President Joe Biden promised the U.S. would strike back against those responsible. "To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this –– we will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay,” the president said in a somber White House address.
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Biden repeats plea for Americans to get vaccinated after Pfizer receives full FDA approval
The Food and Drug Administration gave its long-anticipated approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, spurring President Biden to again make the case for hesitant Americans to get inoculated.
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'They're very different countries': As Harris heads to Vietnam, White House rejects comparisons to Afghanistan
Senior aides to VP Kamala Harris are trying to avoid any potential comparisons between the falls of Kabul and Saigon as she prepares for her upcoming diplomatic trip to Southeast Asia.
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Biden announces vaccine mandate for nursing home staff
President Biden announced Wednesday that staff members at nursing homes would now be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or those facilities would risk losing their Medicare and Medicaid funding.
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Biden draws new red line for U.S. military action in Afghanistan
In a resolute and, at times, defensive speech explaining the swift fall of U.S.-trained security forces in Afghanistan to the Taliban and his decision to pull troops from that country, President Biden also drew a red line Monday for the use of future military force.
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Citing U.S. vaccination milestone, Biden says 'the message is getting through'
President Biden celebrated a belated milestone on Tuesday, saying that achieving the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of U.S. adults for COVID-19 “will make a big difference” in helping end a pandemic made worse by the spread of the Delta variant.
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Biden mandates vaccinations for federal employees, contractors; encourages $100 payments for Americans
President Biden announced in a speech Thursday that all federal employees and contractors are now required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 before returning to in-person work, and he also encouraged states and localities to pay $100 to each newly vaccinated American.