A new report alleges that the Biden White House has implemented excessive 'gatekeeping' practices, hindering access to the President for top officials and lawmakers, even during critical times like the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
A stack of interviews from a report included concerns from Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), a maverick former Democrat who spent long hours negotiating with the White House during Biden’s first few years in office. Noting he had questions at the time about whether Biden had the stamina required to run the country, Manchin suggested presidential staffers had become avid gatekeepers, calling them a group of “eager beavers.
” “They were going, ‘I’ll take care of that,’ ” Manchin said of a group of staffers who included then-White House chief of staff Ron Klain. President Joe Biden, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), right, speaks outside the White House in Washington, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The gatekeeping reportedly has gone so far as to limit top Cabinet officials’ access to Biden, even as the United States grapples with wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has seen his access to one-on-one, in-person briefings with Biden significantly decline in the past two years, per the report. Even during the chaotic 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Biden’s staffers reportedly pushed top lawmakers, including the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, away from the commander in chief. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said that while he tried to hold a direct conversation with Biden regarding his concerns about the plans, he was never able to get on the phone with him before the disastrous withdrawal left 13 U.S. troops dead. Smith reportedly wanted the president and his team to measure their expectations, knowing himself how complicated a mission like this would be. Smith had just one call with Biden during his time in the White House shortly after the Afghanistan affair, according to the congressman. “The Biden White House was more insulated than most,” Smith told the outlet. “I spoke with Barack Obama on a number of occasions when he was president and I wasn’t even chairman” of the Armed Services committee
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