{"id":1216533,"date":"2022-01-14T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216533"},"modified":"2022-01-14T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T19:04:29","slug":"biden-announces-press-conference-to-mark-one-year-since-gaining-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-announces-press-conference-to-mark-one-year-since-gaining-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Announces Press Conference To Mark One Year Since Gaining Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-announces-press-conference-to-mark-one-year-since-gaining-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden will hold a formal press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 19 \u2014 his first such event since March of 2021 \u2014 the White House announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has held <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/biden-psaki-scotus-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than half as many press conferences<\/a> in his first year in office as any five of his most recent predecessors. His first press conference came March 25 of 2021, and he held a subsequent five solo press conferences throughout the year and three more alongside other heads of state, bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-entertainment-health-media-ce99c9856653c3e292be3dd0438e3855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the total to nine<\/a>. The White House says the conference will mark Biden\u2019s one-year anniversary of gaining office, though reporters are likely to focus on the numerous roadblocks his administration hit this week.<\/p>\n<p>As the one-year mark for the Biden presidency approaches, a Quinnipiac poll put Biden\u2019s approval rating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/12\/joe-biden-approval-rating-quinnipiac-covid-19-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/12\/joe-biden-approval-rating-quinnipiac-covid-19-afghanistan\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642201279439000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2_0TJND1lKiAstbgOByCmf\">at just 33%<\/a> on Wednesday, the lowest of his tenure so far. Biden entered office with a solid 54% approval rating, but he has consistently slipped in the polls since spring of 2021. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/joe-biden-whispers-answers-1-trillion-relief\/\">(RELATED: Watch Joe Biden Weirdly Whisper His Answers To The Press)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">White House press sec. Jen Psaki announces Pres. Biden will hold a formal press conference on Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 4P ET, nearly one year since taking office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president looks forward to speaking directly to the American people.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KcJgYwikN4\">https:\/\/t.co\/KcJgYwikN4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RbOIxummS0\">pic.twitter.com\/RbOIxummS0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1482056686861000704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While the White House was counting on passing Biden\u2019s Build Back Better (BBB) and elections agenda to turn the situation around, Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia \u2014 along with 50 Republicans \u2014 have made that impossible. Both senators announced their opposition to abolishing the filibuster Thursday afternoon, even as Biden was on Capitol Hill advocating for its removal. The rule imposes a 60-vote threshold to pass most legislation and makes it virtually impossible for Democrats to push through the BBB or Biden\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/biden-filibuster-georgia-voting-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effort to federalize America\u2019s election laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later on Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down Biden\u2019s vaccine-or-test mandate, which would have required all businesses with more than 100 employees to subject their workers to either a vaccine requirement or a weekly COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has faced heavy criticism from reporters for Biden\u2019s lack of availability to the public. The issue <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/joe-biden-aides-shout-down-reporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">came to a head<\/a> in September during Biden\u2019s White House meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Following the meeting, U.K. reporters were given the chance to ask questions, but White House staff shouted down members of the U.S. press corps. The incident led to a showdown between White House press secretary Jen Psaki and the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entire editorial component of the U.S. pool went immediately into Jen Psaki\u2019s office to register a formal complaint that no American reporters were recognized for questions in the president\u2019s Oval Office, and that wranglers loudly shouted over the president as he seemed to give an answer to Ed O\u2019Keefe\u2019s question about the situation at the southern border,\u201d WHCA President Steven Portnoy announced at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will hold a formal press conference at the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 19 \u2014 his first such event since March of 2021 \u2014 the White House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}