Even while pushing $6 trillion in spending and mass-producing executive orders, Joe Biden has run the country much as he ran his campaign quietly. So long to that luxury.
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Jen Psaki generated some buzz at the end of last week after participating in David Axelrod’s podcast. During her interview with him, she said she expects to leave her job as White House press secretary ‘in about a year’. While this is good news for those of us who not impressed with Psaki, we should be careful of what we wish for. Her replacement could very well be a Bernie bro – or more accurately, a Bernie gal.
Axelrod asked Psaki a question about her plans during last week’s “The Axe Files” and she referenced a timeline of about a year for her departure. Apparently, she accepted the job with only committing for a year or so of service.
She’s chasing a Washington dream. He’s the Night Mayor. Ben Terris It’s a Wednesday evening in April, and the ambiance at Old Ebbitt Grill, the historic tourist trap steps from the White House, feels familiar, if not exactly normal. The restaurant is operating at 25 percent capacity, per D.C’s covid-19 guidelines. A family with two young boys work their way through a mountain of french fries, waiters in black masks bring martinis to tables separated by transparent dividers, and a new political power couple tucks quietly into a back booth. Symone Sanders, 31, senior adviser to Vice President Harris, has just come from work, wearing a camel-hair-colored shawl, her long, rainbow fingernails tapping on her phone.
Symone Sanders, Kamala Harris's press secretary, is chasing a Washington dream. Her fiance, Shawn Townsed, is Muriel Bowser's night mayor. washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.