President Biden
Joe BidenDNC strengthens his finance team Pentagon expands National Guard presence in Capitol until May 23 Blinken to appear before Foreign Affairs committee MORE has no reluctance to speak to the press, his close ally, Rep. James Clyburn (SC), third-ranked Democrat in the House, told Fox News Tuesday.
Clyburn, whose South Carolina Biden endorsement helped him to victory in the state primaries, said Democrats and Biden are just on the COVID-19 package, and voters don’t have the president and a Democratic House and Senate. chosen to please the media.
The comments come amid some grumbling that Biden has not yet held a full press conference. The White House has said Biden will do this before the end of the month.
“There is no reluctance on the part of this president to communicate with the press,” Clyburn said after Fox News anchor and editor-in-chief Neil Cavuto said he was “curious as to why.” [Biden] does not hold major press conferences. “
“Why isn’t it,” Cavuto replied.
“Simply because we’re busy with other things right now,” Clyburn said. ‘We’re not here just to please the media. We are here to please the American people. ”
Clyburn then noted that the House will approve Biden’s $ 1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill on Wednesday.
“We get this bill signed – done tomorrow, signed this week and he has already told you he will be among the American people selling this bill,” he said.
Pray has taken ad hoc questions from reporters at the end of events or while walking to Marine One, but has not held a full one-on-one Q&A session with the media since taking office.
After reviewing the past 100 years, CNN recently found that each of the 15 presidents prior to Biden had held a press conference within 33 days of the start of the job.
Biden is under increasing pressure not to uphold that tradition. The Washington Post has published at least two opinion pieces calling on Biden to hold a press, and the topic is often brought up by reporters at the daily White House press conference.
When asked about the topic at last Friday’s briefing, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki
Jen PsakiKlain: Biden likely to deliver joint speech to Congress after selling aid package to White House public chief of staff: Young a ‘very serious candidate’ for OMB director On The Money: COVID-19 relief law on track for House Passage, Biden signature Wednesday | The first new checks will go out MORE next week promised that Biden would hold a press before the end of the month. However, she has not specified a date.