Biden Hits Washington Reality in Dash for Post-Trump Reset
- President says U.S. faces crises; Congress showing no urgency
- Psaki says White House ‘still on a pretty rapid pace’
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Joe Biden’s presidency began at a choreographed sprint, with a series of executive actions to erase Donald Trump’s legacy and reset the nation’s course. But as his first full week in office came to a close, the new president was discovering the limits of his power.
His administration’s efforts to bolster vaccine production ran into the same hurdles that plagued the Trump administration -- bottlenecks both at factories and in clinics -- and Biden’s advisers had to clean up after the president said any American would be able to get inoculated by the spring.