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Joe Biden

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Kerrygold sales surge in the US after ‘punitive’ 25% tariff on EU butter is suspended

Ornua, the Irish dairy co-op behind the Kerrygold brand, saw its sales volumes soar 12 per cent in the US market last year
  • Lorcan Allen
  • June 1, 2022

How Biden’s jettisoned green agenda left him in the worst of all worlds

Most Americans are blaming the US President’s green energy policies for the soaring energy prices, while progressives are furious that he has not used the soaring cost of fossil fuels to phase out oil and gas production
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 16, 2022

Marion McKeone: Biden facing a tougher battle on the home front

For the president, the re-emergence of the US as the undisputed leader of a united liberal world order has paid little or no dividend at home
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 3, 2022

Marion Mckeone: Not even a Covid diagnosis can dampen Irish spirits after a successful week in DC

This year’s St Patrick’s Day events in Washington DC will be deemed a diplomatic success, despite Micheál Martin contracting the virus
  • Marion McKeone
  • March 20, 2022

Marion McKeone: US partisanship on pause as politicians agree package for Ukraine

As Capitol Hill moves to agree an aid package of between $10 billion and $15 billion for Ukraine, the crisis has created that rarest of things: a united front between Democrats and Republicans
  • Marion McKeone
  • March 6, 2022

Marion McKeone: As Ukraine burns, the West’s failure to rein in Putin comes home to roost

Decades of bad decisions have left the Western powers effectively helpless to intervene in the unfolding horror in eastern Europe
  • Marion McKeone
  • February 27, 2022

Marion McKeone: Biden holds fire on Ukraine for now as border tensions mount

The American president appears unlikely to send combat troops to the troubled region, but there are clear differences amongst the US and its allies as to how they should proceed in the event of a Russian invasion
  • Marion McKeone
  • January 30, 2022

Lucinda Creighton: US, Britain and and EU must unite in an allied pushback against Russian aggression

An uncertain US acting alone, a divided EU watching from the sidelines and Britain on its own path plays into Putin’s hands
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • January 23, 2022

Marion McKeone: Biden is discovering that the buck stops with him after a difficult first year

For every Biden victory during his first year as president there were unforced errors, unrealistic goals set and some sheer bad luck
  • Marion McKeone
  • January 22, 2022

2022: Make or break for Biden

With crucial midterm elections on the horizon, the increasingly beleaguered US president has his work cut out to get his Build Back Better agenda over the line in the face of vociferous Republican obstinacy. What will the coming year bring for him and his administration?
  • Marion McKeone
  • January 2, 2022

Marion McKeone: Covid deaths in US could soon hit 1m mark

More Americans have now died of the coronavirus under the presidency of Joe Biden than under his wayward predecessor Donald Trump
  • Marion McKeone
  • December 19, 2021

Michael Brennan: Biden’s support for Ireland is key in inch-by-inch Brexit battle

Those who threaten to invoke Article 16 will be given pause for thought if the ‘special relationship’ between the US and UK is perceived to be at risk
  • Michael Brennan
  • November 15, 2021

BIP bill squeezes through, but Biden’s joy could be short-lived

The US president’s ambitious plan to overhaul America’s transport infrastructure will soon become law, but his $1.75 trillion social spending bill might yet be scuppered
  • Marion McKeone
  • November 7, 2021

Marion McKeone: Momentous week may define Biden’s presidency as $1.2tn bill hangs in balance

The US president is facing a monumental battle to get his prized infrastructural investment bill over the line, as rogue senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema continue to obstruct it at every turn
  • Marion McKeone
  • October 31, 2021

Yellen: historic global tax consensus ‘likely to prove durable’

In an exclusive interview, US treasury secretary Janet Yellen reveals a belief that Ireland’s corporate tax reform will put it on the right side of history
  • Peter O'Dwyer
  • October 31, 2021

Biden’s ambitious social spending plan stalled by stubborn senators

The plan to fund federal programmes on everything from climate change to affordable housing grants to lower prescription drug prices requires the support of all 50 Democratic senators, but two of his more conservative members are holding out
  • Marion McKeone
  • October 23, 2021

Marion McKeone: Biden braced for more battles to get his spending package over the line

The US president’s social spending programme has the potential to make his administration a truly transformative one, but two of his own party’s senators are standing in the way
  • Marion McKeone
  • October 3, 2021

Biden dogged by foreign policy disasters as pivotal UN speech looms

Ahead of his prestigious address to the United Nations General Assembly, the US president has a credibility problem following a succession of disasters in Afghanistan
  • Marion McKeone
  • September 19, 2021

Biden losing patience as GOP continues to politicise the pandemic

Biden sees a strict new vaccine mandate as essential to get Americans working again, but Republicans see an opportunity to fight ‘big government’
  • Marion McKeone
  • September 12, 2021

Dan O’Brien: A declining and dysfunctional US is not in Ireland’s interests

The recent chaotic withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan and the continuing polarisation of the American hard right and illiberal left means we can no longer take our impressive economic relationship with that country for granted
  • Dan O'Brien
  • September 12, 2021

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