Biden's first August as president shreds his momentum and tosses daunting new challenges in his path
CNN
President Joe Biden tried twice last month to get to his beach house on the Delaware coast. He never made it.
Far from relaxing, the 31 days of August were the longest and most wrenching of Biden's presidency. A month his aides once viewed as a launching pad for an ambitious autumn was instead consumed by mayhem in Afghanistan, a worsening pandemic and, as it concluded, a massive hurricane plowing into the Gulf Coast. A domestic agenda the President once hoped to spend August discussing still inched forward. But Biden's handling of chaotic and unplanned-for events dominated his time and the nation's attention.President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order as early as Tuesday that would effectively shut down the US-Mexico border to asylum-seekers crossing illegally when a daily threshold of crossings is exceeded – a sweeping and controversial proposal that is likely to receive fierce pushback from progressives and immigration advocates.
In the days and weeks leading up Hunter Biden’s trial on felony gun charges, President Joe Biden made little attempt to distance himself from his son. Instead, Hunter Biden was seen at the White House and in Delaware at his father’s side amid what the president’s allies acknowledge is a difficult moment for both men.