
Biden increasingly impatient with Netanyahu, sources say
CNN
President Joe Biden has become increasingly impatient with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following a blunt phone call Wednesday in which the US President set a deadline for violence to ease between Israel and Hamas.
The call, in which Biden made clear he expected a ceasefire soon, was more "direct, frank and candid" than any of their previous conversations since the President took office, according to a senior administration official. And Biden -- who has a relationship with Netanyahu that stretches back decades -- did not hold back, the official added. It was the two leaders' fourth phone call in a week as violence intensified between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. The White House has used progressively more urgent language to describe each conversation, even as officials described a diplomatic effort focused more on behind-the-scenes pressure than public cajoling.
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As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











