Gizmodo: “The agency says it found no records of a plan to secure White House pets, like President Biden’s dog, Major, during a significant emergency.”
Biden to Deliver Major Voting Rights Speech
President Joe Biden will deliver remarks in Philadelphia on Tuesday about his administration’s actions “to protect the sacred constitutional right to vote,” NBC News reports.
Deal of the Art
Washington Post: “White House officials have helped craft an agreement under which purchases of Hunter Biden’s artwork — which could be listed at prices as high as $500,000 — will be kept confidential from even the artist himself, in an attempt to avoid ethical issues that could arise as a presidential family member tries to sell a product with a highly subjective value.”
New York Times: White House sets ethics plan for sale of Hunter Biden’s art.
Biden Insists He Can Do More With Less
“President Biden and his team have entered a ‘do more with less’ phase of his economic agenda, dictated by the political realities of a closely divided Congress,” the New York Times reports.
“Biden aides say they have found creative ways to stretch federal dollars, often by leveraging private investment, in order to maintain the president’s top goals for his economic program. But they have had to scrap other targets as a result, and Mr. Biden is now barreling toward another round of potentially difficult compromises, this time forced by moderates in his own party, over the second half of his agenda, known as the American Families Plan.”
Giuliani’s Law License Suspended In Washington, D.C.
Rudy Giuliani’s Washington, D.C. law license was suspended Wednesday in light of his recent New York license suspension.
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Biden’s Approval Remains Unusually Steady
Jonathan Bernstein: “Joe Biden’s approval rating fell to its lowest point during his presidency last month, and he exits the July 4 holiday weekend at just 51.9% approval, close to that June low (as usual, I’m using the excellent FiveThirtyEight estimate, based on an adjusted average of all the reputable polls). At the same time, it’s just as likely that Biden’s popularity is holding steady rather than actually slipping. He remains in a narrow range, between a high of 55.1% approval and a low of 51.7%. It’s possible he’s fallen a bit; it’s also possible that his approval rating has been unchanged from Jan. 20 and that any apparent fluctuations are just statistical noise.”
“Either way, Biden’s numbers place him right about in the middle of recent presidents. At the 166-day point in their presidencies, he’s beating four presidents from the polling era: Donald Trump, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and, by a very narrow margin, George W. Bush. The other nine polling-era presidents are all beating him. What distinguishes Biden continues to be how flat his approval line is. Every previous president except Trump had either started his presidency above 60% approval or had spiked up to that level at some point by now. And they all had a larger range observed in the polls at this point; Ronald Reagan, for example, had already experienced a 17-percentage-point surge and then a 10-point drop.”
It’s Biden’s Morning In America
Paul Krugman: “We are having another morning in America, and Biden deserves more credit for his good morning than Reagan ever did for his.”
Democrats Play Political ‘Rubik’s Cube’ with Biden Agenda
“Democratic leaders are performing a high-wire act to keep President Joe Biden’s economic agenda alive, seeking to balance tensions inside their party with pressure from Republicans who want to derail his plans to expand the social safety net,” NBC News reports.
“In the coming weeks, Democratic leaders are hoping to formally begin the process of passing a multitrillion-dollar bill to invest in elder care, paid leave, climate change mitigation and other priorities. Leaders will utilize a procedural quirk to circumvent the filibuster and pass the bill with only Democratic support.”
“At the same time, they’re working to keep the $579 billion infrastructure deal with Republicans afloat, working to shore up support while senators are away from Washington for one more week and hearing from their constituents.”
White House Pursuing Second Bipartisan Deal
Senior White House officials are holding “informal discussions” with outside experts and congressional officials on how to split off a second, targeted bipartisan package from a larger reconciliation package expected to contain the remainder of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposals, reports the Washington Examiner.
“The emerging second cross-party package would likely focus on expanding child and family incentive programs, a topic that has garnered past interest from private sector conservatives and Republican lawmakers.”
America’s Politics Are Stubbornly Fixed
New York Times: “Over a period of weeks, the coronavirus death rate plunged and the country considerably eased public health restrictions. President Biden announced a bipartisan deal late last month to spend hundreds of billions of dollars rebuilding the country’s worn infrastructure — the most significant aisle-crossing legislative agreement in a generation, if it holds together. The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Thursday that the economy was on track to regain all of the jobs it lost during the pandemic by the middle of 2022.”
“And in a blow to Mr. Biden’s fractious opposition, Donald J. Trump — the dominant figure in Republican politics — faced an embarrassing legal setback just as he was resuming a schedule of campaign-style events. The Manhattan district attorney’s office charged his company, the Trump Organization, and its chief financial officer with ‘sweeping and audacious’ financial crimes.”
“Not long ago, such a sequence of developments might have tested the partisan boundaries of American politics, startling voters into reconsidering their assumptions about the current president, his predecessor, the two major parties and what government can do for the American people.”
“These days, it is hard to imagine that such a political turning point is at hand.”
Biden Mingles with Maskless Americans
Associated Press: “Biden stayed mum on policy… focusing instead on cherries — and cherry pie and cherry ice cream — and voters who were mask-free as coronavirus restrictions have eased.”
“It had all the hallmarks of a campaign stop that he couldn’t make last year.”
Biden Gets High Marks for Handling Pandemic
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds 62% of Americans say they approve of the job President Biden has done in dealing with the pandemic, almost identical to findings in April as he neared the end of his first 100 days in office.
His overall approval stands at 50% positive and 42% negative, figures that are also virtually the same as in April.
One low mark for the president comes on the issue of immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, where 33% of Americans say they approve of how he is handling the issue, amid a surge of migrants attempting to cross into the country.
Is Biden Declaring Independence from Virus Too Soon?
“President Biden’s plan to celebrate ‘independence from the virus’ on the Fourth of July is running into an unpleasant reality: Less than half the country is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the highly contagious Delta variant is threatening new outbreaks,” the New York Times reports.
“Public health experts fear that scenes of cross-country celebrations — including a White House party with a liberation theme — will send the wrong message when wide swaths of the population remain vulnerable and true independence from the worst public health crisis in a century may be a long way off.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“I try not to speak to or engage on anonymous reports or anonymous sources.”
— White House press secretary Jen Psaki, quoted by Bloomberg, without noting that she regularly organizes anonymous briefings for reporters.
Biden Adviser Will Step Down
White House senior adviser Anita Dunn will leave her temporary position “very shortly,” Politico reports.
“Dunn was involved in President Joe Biden’s campaign, and though she initially did not plan to be a part of his administration, she later joined in a temporary capacity at the start of his term.”
Quote of the Day
“Who wants to put money on anything that Congress is going to do? Look, folks, this is a process.”
— President Biden, when asked if he was “confident” Congress would enact his agenda.
Biden Aide Charges ‘Sabotage’ of Kamala Harris
“Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office,” Axios reports.
Said White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain: “The President’s trust and confidence in her is obvious when you see them in the Oval Office together.”
Said Biden senior adviser Cedric Richmond: “It’s a whisper campaign designed to sabotage her.”
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