President Biden
Joe BidenDNC strengthens his financial team. The Pentagon extends the presence of the National Guard at the Capitol until May 23 Blinken to appear before the Committee on Foreign Affairs MORE He is reluctant to speak to the press, his next ally, Rep. James Clyburn (SC), the third Democrat in the House, told Fox News on Tuesday.
Clyburn, Biden’s support in South Carolina helped catapult him to a victory in the state primaries, said Democrats and Biden are simply busy with the COVID-19 package and that voters don’t neither the Democratic Chamber nor the Senate elected the president. satisfy the media.
The remarks come amid rumors that Biden has not yet held a full press conference. The White House has said Biden will do so before the end of the month.
“There’s no reluctance on the part of this president to interact with the press,” Clyburn said after Fox News presenter and editor Neil Cavuto said he was curious “why [Biden] does not hold major press conferences “.
“They why he’s not him,” Cavuto replied.
“Just because we’re busy doing other things right now,” Clyburn said. “We’re not here just to satisfy the media. We’re here to satisfy the American people.”
Clyburn then noted that the House will approve Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on Wednesday.
“We have signed this bill, done tomorrow, signed this week and he has already told you that there will be among the Americans selling this bill,” he said.
Bidden has received ad hoc questions from reporters at the end of events or while walking toward Marine One, but has not held a full media question and answer session since taking office.
After reviewing the last 100 years, CNN recently discovered that each of the 15 presidents prior to Biden had held a press conference within 33 days of starting work.
Biden has been under increasing pressure not to maintain this tradition. The Washington Post has published at least two publications calling for Biden to own a press, and the issue is often raised by reporters at the White House daily press meeting.
When asked about the issue at last Friday’s briefing, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki
Jen PsakiKlain: Biden is likely to deliver a joint speech in Congress after selling the relief package to the White House chief of staff: Young is a “very serious candidate” for OMB director On The Money: project COVID-19 relief law on the way to the passage of the house, Biden signing Wednesday | First new controls that will come out next week MORE he promised that Biden would keep a press release before the end of the month. However, he did not specify a date.