A politically debilitated President Joe Biden, expecting to spark a turnaround with a renewed focus on his domestic agenda after a month marred by a spike in Covid-19 cases and a messy withdrawal from Afghanistan, found on Friday the turn could be actually quite difficult
A series of events over the course of an hour laid bare the difficulties ahead.
The Pentagon announced the drone strike in Kabul that Biden once touted as killing ISIS-K terrorists had actually killed 10 citizens; a Food and Drug Administration panel rejected an application to provide vaccine boosters to people over 16, though it endorsed the shots for people 65 and older and those at high risk of severe Covid; and the French government reviewed its minister in Washington for meeting in the midst of a transoceanic disagreement over submarines.
The inconsequential events illustrated Biden's predicament as he looks to recalibrate around his massive economic proposals: a $3.5 trillion budget bill and $1.2 trillion bipartisan
The inconsequential events illustrated Biden's problem as he looks to recalibrate around his huge monetary recommendations: a $3.5 trillion spending bill and $1.2 trillion bipartisan foundation bill. Authorities revealed to CNN that Biden desires to recover energy lost over a cataclysmic August, yet the series of occasions Friday evening highlighted the trouble for any President to completely move past the outside events that often come to define a presidency
