President Joe Biden acknowledges missteps over the still-raging pandemic but hails a year of 'enormous progress' on the US economy as he enters second year in office
President Biden acknowledges the pandemic has left Americans exhausted and demoralised but insists at a news conference marking his first year in office that he has"outperformed" expectations.
In a rare news conference marking his first 12 months on Wednesday, Biden touted a period of unprecedented job creation, infrastructure improvements and a growing economy that he said would help counter inflation and supply chain woes plaguing his presidency. "The inflation has everything to do with the supply chain," the president said at a press conference, adding that his Build Back Better spending proposal, which is stalled in Congress, would improve the situation, but "it's going to be hard and take a lot of work."
Now, with a State of the Union speech to Congress set for March 1, Biden faces the rapidly approaching likelihood of a Republican comeback in midterm congressional elections this November.
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