Biden’s Struggles on Delta Overshadow Infrastructure Victory
- White House caught off guard as pandemic surges anew
- Democratic allies angered by last-minute appeal on evictions
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President Joe Biden is struggling with a surge in coronavirus cases, an impending wave of evictions and a spike in consumer prices that have left the White House looking unprepared and threaten to undermine months of more sure-handed work on the pandemic.
Biden surprised Congress on Thursday with a last-minute plea to extend a moratorium on evictions, two days before the ban’s expiration, leaving lawmakers little time to act.