{"id":1991767,"date":"2023-08-05T07:29:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/back-to-business-biden-tours-country-and-prepares-for-battle-with-congress-away\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:31:26","slug":"back-to-business-biden-tours-country-and-prepares-for-battle-with-congress-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/back-to-business-biden-tours-country-and-prepares-for-battle-with-congress-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden tours nation, readies for Congress clash."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fback-to-business-biden-tours-country-and-prepares-for-battle-with-congress-away%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=1991767&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--><h2>Bidencation is over.<\/h2>\n<p>President \u200bJoe Biden returns to a relatively quiet Washington on Monday, and \u200bhe&#8217;ll be staying busy even with Congress in recess until Labor Day.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden\u200b and Republicans Duke It Out to Define the Economy<\/h3>\n<p>The president \u200cwill \u200btravel to three Western \u2064states promoting his &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; push,\u2062 various Cabinet members are \u200bfanning out to make their own speeches, and Biden will likely be in touch \u200dwith members of \u2063Congress as well due to a\u2064 looming budget showdown in September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president is back at work while Congress stays at play,&#8221; Democratic strategist Brad \u2062Bannon said. &#8220;Now that he&#8217;s back in \u200cthe White House, his priority is \u200cto grid for the big budget\u200d battle with House Republicans that will suck\u2063 up all the oxygen after Labor Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden will have &#8220;lots of calls with Senators to shore up opposition to draconian\u2062 spending cuts\u2064 in the House,&#8221; Bannon added, while &#8220;reaching out to Democratic progressives and Republican moderates in the House to bring\u200d them in line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House responded to questions \u2063from the Washington Examiner about Biden&#8217;s\u200d August \u2064schedule by pointing back to previously announced travel plans.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet members like Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg began traveling last week\u200c to talk up the administration&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will join them this week with stops\u200d in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah to tout the Inflation Reduction Act. He&#8217;ll do the same at an event hosted at the White House on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n<p>While the president has been zinged for his frequent vacations \u200d\u2014 the Republican National Committee&#8217;s \u200btracker says\u200b he hit\u200b 365 full\u2063 or partial vacation days last \u200cFriday \u200c\u2014 he&#8217;s bucking \u2063something of \u200ba historical trend by working most\u2062 of August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All presidents go on vacation in August because Washington goes on vacation in August,&#8221; presidential historian Craig Shirley \u2063said.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents in the past often spent the entire month on vacation along\u2062 with Congress. This practice originally owed \u200cto the sweltering \u2063summer heat of swampy Washington, which Shirley says\u2064 was by design.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Founding Fathers chose the location of the capital for a lot of reasons,&#8221;\u200d he said. &#8220;One was so \u2063the government officials\u200d wouldn&#8217;t want to \u2063meet for too long. British diplomats used to get\u2062 hazard pay \u200dfor being posted in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All of that has changed thanks to\u2064 air conditioning and\u2062 flood control \u200dmeasures, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/back-to-business-biden-tours-country-and-prepares-for-battle-with-congress-away\/\" title=\"Biden tours nation, readies for Congress clash.\">modern communication technology means<\/a> \u200dthe \u2062president \u200dcan\u200d reach any member of Congress whenever he wants.\u2062 But no House\u2064 or Senate votes will be taken at least until the members are back\u200d in person\u2062 in the district.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean the many \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-say-overhaul-needed-to-protect-fed-agencies-from-foreign-hacks\/\" title=\"Lawmakers Say Overhaul Needed to Protect Fed Agencies from Foreign Hacks\">executive branch agencies<\/a>, which are often derided by \u200bconservatives as the unaccountable fourth branch of government, will take a break. A host of \u2062new rules \u200dand regulations\u200d will continue making their \u200dway\u2062 through the implementation process\u2062 this\u2064 month, including the\u2063 Department of Transportation&#8217;s new fuel economy standards that would require a fleetwide average of 58 miles per \u2064gallon for cars and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millennials-now-buying-more-pickup-trucks-than-boomers-gen-x\/\" title=\"Millennials Now Buying More Pickup Trucks Than Boomers, Gen X\">light-duty trucks<\/a> by 2032.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is likely to make a few campaign \u200dstops and fundraisers throughout the month,\u2063 though his biggest \u200dpriority may be\u2063 preparing for September&#8217;s budget\u2064 showdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM\u200d THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers \u2064will have an 18-day window to pass all of their spending bills or \u2062risk a government shutdown. Biden will be sure to wield the power of his veto to try and counter the wishes of\u200d the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has until the end of September to pass an annual budget before the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-approves-mail-in-ballots-for-2021-election\/\" title=\"California Approves Mail-In Ballots For 2021 Election\">fiscal year begins<\/a> on Oct. 1. The \u200cHouse did pass \u200bone of the 12 appropriations bills before leaving town for recess, while the Senate has yet to advance any, putting the two chambers on separate timelines when they return to Capitol\u200b Hill next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bidencation ends as President Joe Biden heads back to a calm Washington. Despite Congress being on recess, he remains occupied. Battling with Republicans, Biden aims to shape the economy through his &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; agenda. Cabinet members are also spreading out across three Western states to support his cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991767","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}