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Brian Bennett
Brian Bennett covers the White House.
Recent Articles
Why Joe Biden Decided on a Diplomatic Boycott of China's Winter Olympics
No Biden Administration officials will attend China’s Winter Olympics in February, the White House announced Monday, in a rebuke to Beijing over China’s use of forced labor and concentration camps to suppress a Muslim ethnic...
By Brian Bennett
December 6, 2021
Why the Omicron Variant Is a New Political Test for Joe Biden
One of Joe Biden’s greatest political vulnerabilities going into next year is a mutating virus. Voters do not seem to be rewarding President Biden for his big-dollar legislative accomplishments. He’s getting declining marks in polls...
By Brian Bennett
November 29, 2021
Why Donald Trump Is Making Extremely Local Endorsements
During their local mayoral race in early November, town residents in Hialeah, Florida, population 230,000, heard a familiar voice in a campaign ad for the city’s election. “Steve Bovo,” boomed former President Donald Trump’s voice,...
By Brian Bennett
November 29, 2021
Catholic Bishops Avoided Fight with Joe Biden on Communion
Hundreds of the country’s Catholic bishops, their names on tags hanging from green lanyards around their necks, sat at long tables inside a conference room in Baltimore on Wednesday to vote on pressing issues facing...
By Brian Bennett
November 17, 2021
How Biden’s Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill
Joe Biden stood in front of an aging bridge in Woodstock, New Hampshire on Tuesday as some of the first winter snowflakes began to fall, and touted the $550 billion in new infrastructure spending he...
By Brian Bennett
November 16, 2021
Joe Biden Faces His Next Challenge on the Infrastructure Bill: Making Voters Care
The President was running late. It was one of Joe Biden’s first chances since his enormous bipartisan infrastructure bill passed Congress to beam directly into living rooms in Kentucky and Ohio and describe how it...
By Brian Bennett
November 10, 2021
How Joe Biden Plans to Rebound From Defeat in Virginia
Joe Biden got home at 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday morning, stepping off the Marine One helicopter onto the White House lawn about an hour after Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia governor’s race in what...
By Brian Bennett
November 4, 2021
Joe Biden Meets With Pope Amid Tensions With Catholics
The two men exchanged gifts. President Joe Biden pressed into Pope Francis’s palm a command coin bearing the insignia of his deceased son Beau’s military unit. Pope Francis handed Biden a signed declaration of peace....
By Brian Bennett
October 29, 2021
What to Expect for Joe Biden's Europe Trip to G20 and COP26
Joe Biden's first Europe trip was focused on cleaning up Donald Trump's mess. Now, he has his own repair work to do.
By Brian Bennett
October 28, 2021
A Push to Remove Dams to Protect Salmon Is Gaining Traction
Two powerful Democrats from the Pacific Northwest are launching a formal review to study the possibility of removing four hydropower dams currently in the path of wild salmon migrating between the Pacific Ocean and breeding...
By Brian Bennett
October 22, 2021
Joe Biden Just Put the Two Holdout Democrats Under the Spotlight to Reach a Spending Deal
With his approval levels sagging and negotiations dragging on his signature infrastructure and social spending bills, President Joe Biden is bringing his pitch directly to the American public in an effort to press Democrats in...
By Brian Bennett/Baltimore, Md.
October 21, 2021
Democrats Struggle to Keep Faith in Joe Biden During Spending Negotiations
As Democrats try to reach a deal on trillions of dollars in spending for infrastructure and social programs, some involved in the process are growing impatient and struggling to keep faith in President Joe Biden’s...
By Brian Bennett
October 20, 2021
The Fight to Save the Salmon
When you get high enough into the mountains of Idaho, the fish are in the trees. For the past million years or so, sockeye and Chinook salmon have migrated 840 miles upstream from the Pacific...
By By Brian Bennett/Lapwai, Idaho with Photographs by Kiliii Yüyan
October 18, 2021
This Is the White House's Plan to Take on Facebook
President Joe Biden wants Congress to strengthen antitrust laws, make sure privacy is better protected, and rewrite Section 230
By Brian Bennett
October 7, 2021
Why Joe Biden Isn’t Strong-Arming the Senate Democrats Holding Up His Agenda
Senators have spent hours on the custard-colored couches of Joe Biden’s Oval Office over the past several days. Dozens of chocolate chip cookies have been passed out. Irish poetry has been quoted. In one White...
By Brian Bennett
September 29, 2021
Joe Biden's Effort to Pass His Domestic Agenda
This is not how Joe Biden wanted September to go. He expected to be barnstorming the country in the closing weeks of negotiations on his signature spending plan, pitching the expansion of health care benefits...
By Brian Bennett
September 24, 2021
Biden Wants to Send Aid to Afghanistan Without Supporting Taliban
When President Joe Biden stood in front of the iconic green marble and gold foil backdrop to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, he declared that the U.S. had...
By Brian Bennett
September 22, 2021
Biden Retains Confidence in Mark Milley Despite Trump Actions
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took extraordinary steps to try to prevent Donald Trump from using military action to remain in office, according to revelations from a forthcoming book by Washington...
By Brian Bennett
September 15, 2021
2 Presidents Search for Unity
The azure sky over lower Manhattan on Saturday morning was eerily similar to the bright morning of Sept. 11, 2001, twenty years before. President Joe Biden stood in a crowd under the canopy of oak...
By Brian Bennett / Shanksville
September 11, 2021
Joe Biden Wants to Honor 9/11—By Moving On From National Security Priorities That Defined the Past 20 Years
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, it was Joe Biden’s wife Jill who told him on the phone that a second plane had crashed into New York’s Twin Towers. Biden was on board an...
By Brian Bennett
September 10, 2021
'A Decision Was Made.' Biden Faces the Fallout for His Chaotic Retreat in Afghanistan
For 35 minutes, as flag-draped cases were carried down a ramp, Biden stood in front of the cold reality of his decisions
By Brian Bennett
September 2, 2021
Kabul Bombing Marks a Turning Point in Afghanistan Withdrawal
The attacks, which killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 60 Afghans, marked the most gruesome and ignominious moment yet of America's endgame in Afghanistan
By Brian Bennett
August 26, 2021
Biden Faces a Test Evacuating Americans From Afghanistan
When Afghanistan's now-deposed President Ashraf Ghani visited President Joe Biden in the White House in late June, he expressed some concerns about how the U.S. planned to evacuate people ahead of the troop withdrawal from...
By Alana Abramson
August 24, 2021
Frustration Builds Between U.S. and Afghan Leaders over Taliban's Advance
The recent Taliban advances in Afghanistan have fed discontent between the Afghan government and the Biden White House
By Brian Bennett
August 10, 2021
FDA Accelerates Full Approval of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine as Delta Variant Surges
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has begun accelerating the process to fully approve the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, facing pressure to add resources from those who believe the lack of full approval is hampering efforts...
By Abigail Abrams
August 4, 2021
Biden Faces Pressure on Masks, Rising COVID-19 Cases
The CDC walked back its earlier guidance, now saying some who are vaccinated should put their masks back on while indoors
By Brian Bennett
July 27, 2021
Biden Administration Says Talks with Russia on Cyber Attacks Are Progressing. Privately, Staffers Are Skeptical
Despite public statements that U.S. talks with Russia are pressing forward on cyber attacks, some of President Joe Biden's own aides are skeptical that President Vladimir Putin will act to rein in cyber criminals based...
By Brian Bennett
July 8, 2021
Joe Biden Gets His Bipartisan Moment on Infrastructure
President Joe Biden has long said he wants to show Americans that Washington can work to solve problems. In coming to a tentative agreement with a bipartisan group of senators to fund approximately $1.2 trillion...
By Brian Bennett
June 24, 2021
How Biden Plans to Combat Rising Gun Violence
President Joe Biden has largely relegated his public remarks on domestic policies to two topics: the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy. But rising murder rates over the past year and the potential for a summer...
By Alana Abramson
June 23, 2021
Joe Biden is Caught in the Middle of a Catholic Church Debate Over Communion
A rift in the American Catholic Church widened in June, as U.S. bishops voted to draft instructions to the faithful on who should receive Communion, with an eye toward dissuading high-profile Catholics like Joe Biden...
By Brian Bennett
June 22, 2021
After Biden-Putin Summit, Tensions Remain
Joe Biden arrived at the highest-stakes meeting of his young presidency with gifts. The American President gave Vladimir Putin a crystal figure of an American bison and—should Putin want to copy Biden’s signature look—a pair...
By Brian Bennett / Geneva
June 16, 2021
Biden’s Summit Gave Putin the World Stage He Craves
The stagecraft of the Geneva summit played to Putin’s long-standing desire for Russia to be taken seriously as a major rival to the U.S.
By Brian Bennett / Geneva
June 16, 2021
How Biden Wrangled Europe’s Backing Ahead of His Meeting With Putin
The facade of unity President Joe Biden built with European allies ahead of his Wednesday summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin required some hard-headed diplomatic wrangling. In closed-door meetings during the NATO summit and E.U....
By Brian Bennett / Geneva
June 15, 2021
Joe Biden Tries to Reset Diplomacy After Trump
Biden's trip to the G7 Summit and the NATO meeting is an opportunity for him to reset American diplomacy after four years of Trump.
By Brian Bennett
June 11, 2021
Biden's Plan to Get Tough On Vladimir Putin in Geneva Summit
The summit, set for June 16, marks Biden's first in-person meeting with Vladimir Putin since taking office earlier this year
By Brian Bennett
June 11, 2021
A Diplomatic Spat Shook Up Biden's First Day in the U.K.
President Joe Biden’s first full day of his eight-day overseas tour got off to a wobbly start as a diplomatic row between the U.S. and U.K. over trade inspections in Northern Ireland erupted into public...
By Brian Bennett
June 10, 2021
Exclusive: Iran Steps Up Efforts to Sow Discord Inside U.S.
Iranian state actors are intensifying their disinformation campaign on social media to spread discord and anti-Semitic tropes inside the U.S., two U.S. intelligence officials say. Social media accounts tracked to troll farms run by the...
By Brian Bennett
June 7, 2021
Inside the Biden Administration's Response to the Spike in Anti-Semitic Attacks
Prodded by Jewish leaders concerned about rising anti-Semitic attacks, the Biden Administration has taken steps in recent days to combat the threat and douse simmering frustrations about its response. The White House held discreet virtual...
By Alana Abramson
May 28, 2021
How Joe Biden Became the Stay-Out-of-It President
President Joe Biden wanted to feel for himself the jolting torque delivered by the Ford F-150 Lightning electric motor. On May 18, as Biden’s staff back in Washington frantically worked behind the scenes to push...
By Alana Abramson
May 21, 2021
Biden Struggles to Stay Out of Israel and Hamas Conflict
When President Biden stepped to the microphone in the East Room on Monday, he wasn’t there to talk about the rising casualties in the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. He wasn’t there...
By Brian Bennett
May 17, 2021
Can One Agency Keep the U.S. Safe and Still Be Humane? The New DHS Chief Thinks So
It was around 4 a.m. on April 28 when Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas jolted himself awake. As he lay in the dark, his mind locked onto the decision he had made the day before...
By Brian Bennett
May 12, 2021
One Hundred Days In, Biden Is Betting on Big Government
The President has calculated that the the Trump era and pandemic have created a once-in-a career opportunity.
By Alana Abramson
April 27, 2021
Why Letting in More Refugees Could Work for Biden
“If you can increase the refugee processing in Central America, you can stop people from making this journey in the first place"
By Brian Bennett
April 20, 2021
Joe Biden’s Presidency Highlights the Rifts in the Catholic Church
The hymns of the Catholic Church have been the soundtrack to Joe Biden’s life. He attends Mass on Sundays and holy days, and before major events. In Oval Office meetings, Biden sometimes pulls from his...
By Brian Bennett
March 31, 2021
Joe Biden Confronts Challenges in First Press Conference
Joe Biden held his first formal news conference as president 65 days into this presidency, after making a series of consequential moves in the early weeks of his Administration to help curb the COVID-19 pandemic...
By Alana Abramson
March 25, 2021
After Mass Shootings, Joe Biden Faces Pressure to Act on Gun Control
In the wake of two deadly shooting sprees in Atlanta and Boulder, calls for gun control from both activists and members of Biden's own party are already intensifying
By Alana Abramson
March 23, 2021
Why Biden's First Major Trips Are to Sell His Relief Plan
Jessica Salas stood up from her plush velvet seat in Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater on Tuesday night, her second-grade daughter Layla in tow, and carefully read her question for President Joe Biden from a white sheet...
By Alana Abramson
February 17, 2021
How Joe Biden Has Changed the ‘Toxic Tone’ in the Oval Office
President Joe Biden prefers to hold meetings in the Oval Office sitting in an armchair next to the fireplace. He often has a slim leather briefing book at his elbow and sometimes balances a slender...
By Brian Bennett
February 8, 2021
Biden's Call For Unity Is Running Into Deadline Pressure
Will Biden make good on promises of unity and continue to court reluctant Republicans to compromise on his COVID-19 relief package, or will his party push it through alone?
By Brian Bennett
January 28, 2021
Washington Puts Back the Pieces After Trump
Polls show the U.S. is still deeply divided and the distrust Trump and his allies have sowed will not be easily repaired
By Brian Bennett
January 22, 2021
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