WASHINGTON (KVRR) – President Joe Biden gives his first State of the Union Address. There’s not many things members of Congress agree on these days. Support for Ukraine amid the country’s invasion by Russia was one thing that was universally praised in the House chamber for the first 15 minutes of the president’s speech. Mr. Biden announced he is closing…
FARGO, N.D. – Once a month, Republicans in the region host an open forum at the Holiday Inn in Fargo with speakers to discuss different topics. In this forum, they discussed the Iowa caucuses, the State of the Union, the impeachment and the North Dakota caucuses coming up on March 10th. Berg called Trump’s State of the Union speech exciting…
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Gary Wertish/President, Minnesota Farmers UnionST. PAUL, Minn. — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro says President Donald Trump “has the backs of farmers.” He made that comment Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union”. He says “a lot” of the money the U.S. is taking in from tariffs is “going right to the farmers.” Farmers have been hit hard by…
WASHINGTON – President Trump in his State of the Union address calls for Democrats and Republicans to work together to tackle major issues to ease the deep partisan rancor that recently fueled the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Mr. Trump said his agenda is not a Republican or Democratic agenda, but “the agenda of the American people.” He says the…
Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) brought Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan to the State of the Union address as her guest. Earlier, Flanagan said she hoped the president would address issues like healthcare and infrastructure. Smith calls the government shutdown “unnecessary and wasteful” and says she’s confident another one won’t happen. “My mom always used to say actions speak louder than words…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former UPS employee Dennis Kooren of Fargo is in Washington, D.C. tonight to listen to the president. Kooren is Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s guest for the State of the Union Address. The senator is highlighting Kooren’s struggles to maintain his pension benefits in her push to pass new legislation. If passed, it would protect people from further cuts to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Heidi Heitkamp has invited a former UPS driver from Fargo to be her guest during President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address. Heitkamp says Dennis Kooren has been a leader of the effort to protect the pensions of North Dakota workers and retirees. Kooren worked as a UPS driver in Fargo for 30 years…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Miss America Cara Mund will attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday as the guest of Sen. John Hoeven. Mund is the 23-year-old Bismarck native who won the Miss America crown last September. She’s the first winner from North Dakota in the history of the nearly century-old scholarship pageant. Mund interned at Sen….
