In his new book, The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future, Atlantic magazine writer Franklin Foer goes deep inside the West Wing. Tracking the new president's response to the coronavirus pandemic, negotiations with Congress, the Afghanistan withdrawal and the war in Ukraine, Foer provides an intimate look at the first two years of the Biden administration.
2. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra refused to take action on unaccompanied minors
Foer writes that Biden was infuriated at Becerra, the Health and Human Services secretary, for not doing more to help house unaccompanied minors who had entered the United States by crossing the border with Mexico. According to Foer, Becerra said he would step in if ordered in writing by Biden, an insistence that earned him a chiding from Susan Rice, chair of the Domestic Policy Council: “You won’t get a request in writing. That’s not how the president operates. He’s given you an order.”
Widely known around Washington to be one of Biden least favorite Cabinet members, Becerra “seemed to only grudgingly accept his responsibilities.”3. Kamala Harris struggled to find her role in the administration Having served as a vice president himself, “Biden wanted to treat Harris with the respect that he felt Barack Obama hadn’t accorded him,” Foer writes. At the same time, she could be tenuous and intensely sensitive to criticism, some of which could have more than a tinge of racism or misogyny. She was so eager to avoid controversy that she “asked to be placed in charge of relations with Scandinavia,” according to Foer. She got the migration crisis and voting rights instead.
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