Biden enters the Always Be Closing phase of his first term
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/28...t-term-00048600
By Adam Cancryn, Jonathan Lemire and Christopher Cadelago
07/28/2022 04:58 PM EDT

Suddenly, overnight, real progress has been teed up for the White House. Can the president deliver?
Those who have worked with Biden in the White House and on Capitol Hill say that the former seven-term senator relishes the role of legislative closer. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

Somehow, someway, Joe Biden is back in the game.

After enduring a brutal year dominated by economic angst, legislative setbacks and sinking approval ratings, the president is suddenly on the verge of a turnaround that, the White House believes, could salvage his summer — and alter the trajectory of his presidency.

All he needs to do now is close.

“There’s just so much at stake here,” said one adviser to senior party leaders, describing how, overnight, a sense of enormity was added to the immediate calendar.

Over the next few weeks, the president will have to land centerpieces of his domestic agenda aimed at boosting the nation’s global competitiveness and revamping whole swaths of its economy. Major decisions on student loans and expanding abortion rights hang in the balance. There’s also the matter of containing twin outbreaks of monkeypox and the coronavirus, the last of which Biden just spent five days personally fending off.

If that weren’t enough, he’s juggling a slate of foreign affairs challenges as well — headlined by longer-term efforts to reset with Iran on a nuclear deal and negotiate the release of a basketball star and another American jailed in Russia.

It’s a massive political to-do list set against the backdrop of a midterm election likely to cost Democrats full control of Washington. And within a White House that’s often felt under siege, there’s broad recognition that how Biden executes on it will determine the difference between a historic first term and a tragic lost opportunity.

White House officials are approaching the moment with cautious optimism, energized by the fresh jolt of momentum for Biden’s top priorities in Congress, itself underscored by the passage Thursday of a bill designed to boost semiconductor production and better compete with China.

Yet they are also aware that many elements remain well outside their control.-- excerpt, rest at link above --



If you want to know what the plan is, they pretty much lay it out here.

And, it's pretty offputting they way they act like FJB even knows, much less understands, what is going on.

"pretty off-putting" is putting it mildly....