20, 2021, and his only other solo appearance at the White House took place in March of that year.ĭuring the first hour of the presser, the president took questions from a pre-arranged list of reporters. AFP via Getty Imagesīefore Wednesday, Biden had held just nine news conferences since taking office on Jan. When reminded of his campaign theme of a “return to civility,” Biden raged, “Look at what I said, go back and read what I said” before adding sarcastically, “I assume you got into journalism because you’d like to write.”ĥ Wednesday’s rare event in the East Room comes amid tanking poll numbers for President Biden. “I haven’t attacked anybody publicly, any senator, any - any congressman publicly, and my disagreements with them have been made to them, communicated to them privately or in person with my desires,” Biden insisted. Biden responded angrily to a question from RealClear Politics’ Philip Wegmann about his controversial speech last week in Atlanta, where he likened opponents of Democratic voting reform laws to notorious racists George Wallace, Bull Connor and Jefferson Davis.Biden also acknowledged that two “really big components that I feel strongly about” - extending the child tax credit and “help for the cost of community college” - were unlikely to be included.
“I’m not going to negotiate myself as to what should and shouldn’t be in it, but I think we can break the package up, get as much as we can now, and come back and fight for the rest later,” he said. Biden admitted that he’ll have to break up his signature $2 trillion Build Back Better bill into “pieces” and “chunks” so he can get Congress to approve them.
And that’s going to take a lot of work,” he said. While claiming that there’s been progress “on speeding up access to materials,” he admitted that “there’s a lot we have to do” to bring inflation under control.
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