Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 191
Blue Wave Update
President Obama delivered a statement today, his first to the White House press corps since winning reelection, on the budget issues facing Congress in the lame duck session.
The president did not take questions, as BuzzFeed notes, the first time a reelected president has done so since before Ronald Reagan’s reelection in 1984.
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