From Semafor:
Of interest:
" It’s unclear even to some inside the West Wing policy process which policy issues reach the president, and how. Major decisions go into an opaque circle that includes White House chief of staff, Jeff Zients (who talks to the president regularly) and return concluded. (The big exception to this pattern, they said, is foreign policy.)"
Of course...
"Spokesman Andrew Bates said in an email: “This single source’s claim is directly contradicted by a large body of (even critical) reporting about the policy process, which has continually stressed President Biden’s direct involvement in every major decision.”"
I mean, they do have to keep up appearances...
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There are some saying that the linked piece is not much better than a gossip column since no one is named. That is certainly a possibility but given the 180 that named people have done in the past week and given my own observations I believe the piece to be far more likely to be true than false. By a large margin.
