WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden marked six months in the office on Tuesday with a crowded cabinet meeting, a meeting intended to symbolize both returned to normal because the vaccine and the appearance of the federal government did the people’s business.
But at that time it was overshadowed by uncertain fate of the main Biden legislative priorities, bipartisan infrastructure plans, and viruses that have begun to soar.
Biden cram 25 cabinet level officials, as well as 18 other senior staff, to the western wing room decoration to hear the President praised his government’s actions after serving during the once-in century pandemics.
“ The point is we convey our promise, “said Biden.
“ We must fulfill all the promises we make, because I think we are in a situation where most people agree with the essence of what we are trying to do.
“Cabinet members are tightly packed.
Around the table for their first full meeting in the cabinet room, with a group of journalists squeezed on the shoulder to the shoulder at first to record the event.
The White House held a training for a meeting a few weeks ago to ensure that all cabinet ranking officials can load around the table and look in the photo.
“The time passes when we have fun, ” Secretary of the White Press Building Jen PSAKi unites his briefing, previewing the six-month Mark meeting.
Biden was flanked by the State Secretary Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Vice President Kamala Harris sat across the table while some of the most influential asserverations of the President, including Jake Sullivan National Security Advisors and Susan Rice’s domestic policy advisors, lined up walls.
The scene looks much different from the Biden’s first cabinet meeting, which was held in March, which took place in the wider East Room to enable social distance.
All participants that day, including the president, wore a mask.
Nothing looks on Tuesday.
The meeting did not have the main praise of the chief executive who defined a former Cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump.
But Biden took the opportunity to drive his legislative legislative plan, believing that it was the key to jumping starting “ economic boom for some time to come.
“” Americans strongly support our plans, “said the President.
“ That’s the portion that many good friends on other teams are longing.
“Even though Biden enjoys a public poll that is mostly positive, there are clouds on the horizon.
When he held his cabinet, three top helper who negotiated the $ 1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure agreement was not there, after rushing to the Capitol to try to save the agreement that appeared on the threshold.
Biden March’s meeting came just a few days after he signed the Covid $ 1.9 trillion assistance bill and he had poured his legislative energy since it into the infrastructure package despite calling from several in his own party to focus on problems such as voting rights and immigration.
And while Pandemi has receded since March, the efforts of nation’s vaccination have stopped and new strains that are more contagious from Covid-19, Delta variants, have sent increased infections throughout the country.
This has mostly affected _ which was not vaccinated even though the White House announced Tuesday that some vaccinated staff had tested positively _ and the spread had pushed several major cities to recover mask masks.
The White House, so far, has not followed him.