Obama To Meet San Bernardino Capturing Victims’ Households Friday
“We are hitting ISIL harder than ever”, Obama said at the Pentagon.
President Barack Obama embraces Jane Dougherty, right, and Sue Connors, left, sisters of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School psychologist Mary Sherlach, after speaking at the Denver Police Academy in April 2013.
President Obama is still pushing on Friday, July 22, 2011 to “go big” on debt deal even though he is facing resistance from his own party.
The fight against the militant group in Syria and Iraq and preventing similar attacks at home will be at the top of his list for 2016, the officials said.
Obama has vacationed in Hawaii every year since taking office.
Obama wants to make progress on two issues on which he has been long thwarted by Congress: toughening up gun regulations and closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The president will be a “visible campaigner” next year, stumping for the Democratic presidential nominee and other Democratic candidates, senior Obama administration officials told reporters Thursday.
“We will prevail by being strong and smart, resilient and relentless”, Obama said at the time.
In reacting to both the San Bernardino attack andthe Roseburg attack-which occurred in a “gun free facility”-Obama focused on gun control”.
Obama has vowed to call for new gun-control measures after every mass shooting. It’s on the President’s mind, an aide added.
He said the Homeland Security agency “is especially concerned that terrorist-inspired individuals and homegrown violent extremists may be encouraged or inspired to target public events or places”.
The White House is feeling a newfound optimism in working with new House Speaker Paul Ryan, who shepherded the massive omnibus spending and tax package through his conservative caucus in recent weeks.