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It's a rare moment that we can place a time stamp on a U.S. president's worst decision. But in the case of Joe Biden, we can thank politics-by-Twitter for the ability to write definitively that the dumbest move —both governmentally and politically — by our 46th POTUS is the unforced…

President Joe Biden’s support of a resolution to block new District of Columbia crime laws has split members of his own party amid rising concerns about crime in the nation’s capital and other cities

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer has rejected a plea from the Democratic chairman of the Washington, D.C., Council to cancel a planned vote on a House-passed measure blocking the district’s new criminal code.

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The proposal has set off a national debate about crime.

Senate Majority Leader Schumer is rejecting an attempt by D.C. officials to avoid a vote to block a new criminal code.

In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.

US president angers progressives by saying he will not veto Congress bill to block justice reform in Washington, DC.

Biden is backing a Republican effort to block D.C. lawmakers from setting their own criminal justice laws

Congress has final authority over the capital city.

Crime is much worse in "red states" — and that's been true for years. Why don't Democrats ever just say it?