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LIVE: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki Holds News Conference in Washington, D.C.
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52:09Now Playing(Feb. 4) Watch live as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki holds a press briefing at the White House on Thursday, February 4, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
In his drive to deliver Americans $1.9 trillion in economic relief, President Joe Biden is turning to a trusted aide known more for his record of forging compromises on some of the nation’s most charged issues than he is for his progressive politics.
Brian Deese, director of Biden’s National Economic Council, stepped down from his position at BlackRock Inc. to become the White House frontman in the fight to push a stimulus through a Congress deeply divided over the substance and price tag of the rescue package.
The White House is banking on Deese’s data-driven and firm but low-key approach to bridge the chasm between the most progressive wing of the Democratic party and moderate Republicans -- amid intense pressure from outside groups -- to deliver a bipartisan rescue package.
Biden “wasn’t looking for someone to have a very different point of view, or steer things in a different direction,” White House chief of staff Ron Klain said in an interview. “He was looking for someone to make the wheels of government deliver the views he has.”
Thorny and urgent rescues aren’t new to Deese. As a senior staffer in Barack Obama’s administration, he helped craft the 2009 auto bailout, the 2015 Bipartisan Budget Act and the Paris climate accord. Still, Washington has become even more divided since he left government in 2016, leaving Deese with the task of appealing to widely divergent factions, including centrist Democrats, moderate Republicans and powerful liberal senators including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
“He is bringing his experiences from the Obama administration that led to many successes and frustrating losses,” said Democratic Senator Ed Markey, who has known Deese for years. “He has the benefit of that experience of the pathway to victory, but knows also how to avoid defeat. That is a hard won set of lessons that he has internalized, and the Biden agenda will be the beneficiary of his experiences.”
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