Q: How does Biden explain Biden's silence this week? Biden's Press Sec: "He's not been silent! I'm not gonna speak about, is that somebody's doorbell? Alarm? And I'll speak more broadly... Climate change!"
Biden's Press Sec abruptly ends the press briefing rather than take a question from Simon Ateba who represents Africa in the WH briefing room after a year of refusing to take any question from him.
Biden's Press Sec: "If American people hear directly from us they will know exactly what we've been doing... we understand that prices, again, are too low... black wealth jumped up by 60%... high inflation because of pandemic..."
"This is indeed a Republican shutdown." Reporter: "But our latest polling shows that a higher percentage of Americans actually blame shutdown on Biden & Democrats." Press Sec: "This will be a Republican shutdown, right?"
WH press sec on Biden saying he has no intentions of letting the Republicans wreck the economy: "[Biden] is going to call that out when he sees there is real danger..."