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Brian Bennett
Brian Bennett covers the White House.
Recent Articles
Biden's Moves on NATO Come Amid Fear Russian War Will Expand
The president is getting progressively bolder in his efforts to support Ukraine and bolster NATO.
By Brian Bennett
May 19, 2022
Buffalo Shooting: Biden Faces Pressure on Gun Control
Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to “end” America’s gun violence epidemic. The racially-motivated shooting that killed 10 people and injured three at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday highlights how far...
By Brian Bennett
May 16, 2022
Biden's Abortion Stance and Catholic Faith Have Never Been More at Odds
Tension Between Biden's Abortion Stance and Catholic Faith
By Brian Bennett
May 13, 2022
Biden Says Access to Abortion Is a 'Fundamental' Right
President Joe Biden issued a forceful defense of access to abortion on Tuesday, saying a woman's right to choose is "fundamental" and that "basic fairness" demands that Supreme Court not overturn five decades of precedent...
By Brian Bennett
May 3, 2022
What Trevor Reed Reveals about Joe Biden’s Cautious Approach to Releasing American Hostages
President Joe Biden waited until former Marine Trevor Reed was out of Moscow, had been successfully exchanged for a Russian prisoner in Turkey, and was safely on a plane bound for the U.S. before calling...
By Brian Bennett
April 27, 2022
What Elon Musk's Purchase of Twitter Could Mean for Donald Trump's Account
Hours after Elon Musk bought Twitter, conservative Fox News host Tucker Carlson returned to the platform following a suspension for “hateful conduct” in tweets insisting a transgender senior Administration official was a man. When Twitter...
By Brian Bennett
April 25, 2022
Why Joe Biden Launched an Infrastructure Roadshow
Standing inside the cinder-block walls of the New Hampshire Port Authority in Portsmouth on Tuesday, Joe Biden had just praised the state’s politicians for helping pass last year’s infrastructure bill. He was about to launch...
By Brian Bennett
April 21, 2022
Biden Tries to Stop and Document Russian Atrocities in Ukraine
Collecting evidence of Russian brutality for later investigations and potential prosecutions has become a priority for the Biden Administration.
By Brian Bennett
April 6, 2022
The Invasion of Ukraine Hasn't Loosened Vladimir Putin's Grip on Power. It Might Have Done the Opposite
President Biden and senior U.S. officials have openly questioned Vladimir Putin’s leadership as Russia reels from economic sanctions and battlefield failures. Newly declassified U.S. intelligence has described Putin as increasingly isolated, unable to get accurate...
By Brian Bennett
April 2, 2022
The White House Is Already Starting the Blame Game for the Next COVID-19 Spike
The Biden Administration is preparing for a possible new surge in COVID-19 cases and has already started the political blame game in case the response falls short. The White House has called out Republicans in...
By Brian Bennett
March 25, 2022
Joe Biden's High-Stakes Europe Trip for NATO Summit Begins
Joe Biden had his hands full when he walked out the White House to start his four-day swing through Europe. Two cell phones were stacked together in one hand; a pair of his signature aviator...
By Brian Bennett
March 23, 2022
China’s Response to Russia Could Upend the World Order
Jake Sullivan looks flushed and his jaw is clenched. Across from President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser, over a row of ferns at a matching table draped in blue cloth, sits China’s senior foreign affairs...
By Brian Bennett
March 16, 2022
Why President Biden Banned Russian Oil
Biden's ban on Russian energy imports is an effort to further choke off revenue going to Moscow amid Russia's deadly invasion of Ukraine.
By Brian Bennett
March 8, 2022
What Biden Could Do Next to Pressure Putin on Ukraine
As Joe Biden sat down in the West Wing’s Cabinet Room on Thursday with his top officials to discuss the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a boom microphone rattled the chandelier overhead. Biden...
By Brian Bennett
March 4, 2022
President Biden's State of the Union: 'We Are United'
Joe Biden walked into the House Chamber Tuesday night, maskless, shaking hands with lawmakers before he spoke about a new moment in the country easing its pandemic restrictions. “Last year COVID-19 kept us apart. This...
By Abby Vesoulis and Brian Bennett
March 2, 2022
Russia's Ukraine Invasion Tests Joe Biden's Foreign Policy
Politicians have a tell. In moments of crisis, American Presidents are often most resolute about what they’re most worried about. When Joe Biden, visibly tired and facing a crisis of generation-defining proportions, walked to the...
By Brian Bennett
February 24, 2022
Joe Biden's Strategy for Dealing With Putin and Ukraine
Joe Biden spent the weekend before Valentine’s Day at Camp David, on the easternmost edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Russia had amassed 150,000 troops on the borders of Ukraine, and U.S. intelligence officials believed...
By Brian Bennett
February 17, 2022
How Donald Trump's Vaccine Support Is Splitting His Base
In late January, a blast of fundraising emails for Donald Trump featured a “MUST-SEE: New Trump Ad” that, among other things, championed Trump's role in creating a COVID-19 "vaccine in record time, saving millions of...
By Brian Bennett
February 10, 2022
Civilians Killed in ISIS Raid in Syria Despite Planning
There was a sense of relief inside the narrow, cramped Situation Room on Wednesday evening, when an early report came to President Joe Biden from the risky commando mission underway in northeastern Syria. A family...
By Brian Bennett and W.J. Hennigan
February 4, 2022
How Joe Biden Is Choosing a Supreme Court Nominee
With a freshly stoked fire roaring in the fireplace behind him, President Joe Biden welcomed into the Oval Office Tuesday two of the most powerful Senators charged with considering his pick for Supreme Court. “We’re...
By Madeleine Carlisle and Brian Bennett
February 2, 2022
Why Biden Is Already Losing in Putin’s Ukraine Gambit
As Russian tanks amassed along the frozen marshes of the Belarus border with Ukraine on Jan. 25, Joe Biden stepped into a small Capitol Hill boutique. After buying a card for First Lady Jill Biden...
By Brian Bennett and W.J. Hennigan
January 27, 2022
How the Biden Administration Lost Its Way
One year in, U.S. President Joe Biden faces a long list of troubles and growing doubts that he’s fit for the job
By Molly Ball and Brian Bennett
January 20, 2022
Joe Biden Defends His First Year in Marathon Press Conference
Joe Biden seemed to have a lot he wanted to get off his chest. Just over an hour into the second press conference of his presidency and the first since his approval ratings plummeted this...
By Brian Bennett
January 19, 2022
Democrats' Odds of Passing Voting Rights Reform Looked Bad Before Biden Went to the Hill—And Worse After He Left
Joe Biden spent more than three decades in the Senate. He understands its arcane rules. He once showed a prowess for shepherding complex legislation past obstinate Senators from both parties. But as he closes out...
By Abby Vesoulis and Brian Bennett
January 13, 2022
Why Biden Flipped on Ending the Filibuster
Now that he’s President, Joe Biden says Republican efforts to restrict American access to voting demand a change in the Senate
By Brian Bennett
January 11, 2022
How Donald Trump Turned Jan. 6 into a Windfall
How Trump weaponized the events of Jan. 6 to raise money and tighten his grip on the GOP
By Brian Bennett and Chris Wilson
January 5, 2022
Joe Biden's Biggest Challenges in 2022
Joe Biden enters his second year in office down in the polls, with a pandemic dragging on and nearly a third of Americans still hesitant to get vaccinated, a recovering economy strained by inflation and...
By Brian Bennett
December 29, 2021
Biden Tries to Bring Comfort to Kentucky After Deadly Tornadoes
There was hand holding. There were pats on the head. And there were hugs— a lot of hugs. As Joe Biden walked through Dawson Springs, Kentucky on Wednesday, he passed homes ground down to piles...
By Brian Bennett
December 15, 2021
Biden’s Push to Strengthen Democracies Abroad Begins at Home
It was supposed to be in person, but the long tail of the COVID-19 pandemic meant Joe Biden’s first gathering of the world's democracies would have to be held virtually. Opening the first day of...
By Brian Bennett
December 10, 2021
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 and Abby Vesoulis
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
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