Biden plans to sign the sprawling economic package into law this week, but a bigger event is being planned for after Labor Day, when voters are expected to pay more attention.
Today, President Biden remains on vacation on South Carolina’s Kiawah Island. He plans to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law this week, but the White House is preparing for a much larger celebration on Sept. 6, after Labor Day, when Americans are expected to pay more attention to what’s at stake in the fall midterm elections. The long-delayed bill, passed by the House on Friday, aims to lower prescription drug costs, address global warming, raise taxes on some billion-dollar corporations and reduce the federal deficit.
Meanwhile, fallout continues over last week’s search by the FBI of former president Donald Trump’s residence in Florida, from which agents said they removed classified materials. Leading Democrats are pressing for a review of potential national security damage. Late Sunday, Trump called the search “a sneak attack on democracy.”
House Republicans and the White House are clashing over who’s to blame for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover following the collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
Writing in The Early 202, The Post’s Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell say that the Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee made public on Sunday the findings of their inquiry into the evacuation — an apparent blueprint for a deeper investigation of the president and his top advisers should the GOP win the House majority in November’s midterm elections.
