The president s early focus on equity is an attempt to account for differences in need among people with historically disadvantaged backgrounds. But those efforts are not without critics.
Daily routine and a script are back in the Biden White House, but how long can it last? Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – After Joe Biden signed another raft of executive orders Tuesday, a reporter deviated from the day s theme – racial equity – to ask the president what he talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin about earlier in the day. You, Biden replied with a smile as he walked away from a desk in the White House State Dining Room. He sends his best.
The exchange offered a rare off-script moment during the first days of Biden s administration that have brought rigid scheduling and routine back to the White House after four years of unpredictability under former President Donald Trump.
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. Complex, overlapping layers of security and a growing distance from the American public have led successive presidents to label the White House “the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system.” But the mansion may have competition for the title if an immediately controversial proposal goes through at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue.