“White House chief of staff Jeff Zients urged people during an all-staff meeting on Wednesday to tune out the ‘noise’ and focus on the task of governing as senior aides scramble to contain the political fallout from President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance,” the AP reports.
White House Staff Urged to Focus on Governing
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