- Joe Biden confronts a leadership moment (CNN) – An exhausted and impatient nation needs the kind of clarity and leadership only a president can provide as the coronavirus pandemic reaches a potentially decisive stage.
- President Biden: Go big with COVID-19 relief (The Hill) – Biden has built on his Election Day level of support when it comes to tackling the COVID-19 crisis. In a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, more than two-thirds of Americans approve of Biden’s response to the pandemic.
- Donald Trump rips Mitch McConnell as each seeks to exert leadership after impeachment trial (USA Today) – In a stark statement that laid bare the party’s fractiousness over Trump, the ex-president described McConnell as a “hack” who will not be able to lead the Republican Party back to victory.
- Leading House Democrat sues Donald Trump under a post-Civil War law for conspiracy to incite US Capitol riot (CNN) – The lawsuit, filed by Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson in his personal capacity, is the first civil action filed against the former President related to the attack at the US Capitol and comes days after the Senate acquitted Trump in his impeachment trial.
- Stay or Go? Biden, Long a Critic of Afghan Deployments, Faces a Deadline (New York Times) – The question is whether the small contingent of American troops can accomplish anything after 20 years — and whether full withdrawal would clear the way for Taliban advances.
- Biden heads out of D.C. for town hall and first major presidential trip (Washington Post) – Speaking at a CNN town hall, Biden pledged that any American who wants a vaccine will have access to one by the end of July.
- McConnell shows that legacies don’t matter when facts no longer do (Washington Post) – Now, there’s little concern about the judgment of extraordinary minds. The focus is on catering to the smallest of them.
- Biden says investigating Trump is up to the Justice Department (Washington Times) – President Biden said Tuesday night that he won’t meddle with any decision by his Justice Department to prosecute former President Donald Trump for anything he did while in office. “One of the most serious pieces of damage done by the last administration was the politicizing of the Justice Department,” Mr. Biden said.
- Biden: ‘I’m tired of talking about Trump’ (The Hill) – “For four years, all that’s been in the news is Trump. The next four years, I want to make sure all the news is the American people. I’m tired of talking about Trump,” Biden said.
