Republicans Were ‘Taken Aback’ by Biden’s Response to Harris During Meeting: Book
President Joe Biden’s response to Vice President Kamala Harris during a meeting took Republicans “aback,” according to a book. A forthcoming book by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns of The New York Times detailed the…
President Joe Biden’s response to Vice President Kamala Harris during a meeting took Republicans “aback,” according to a book.
A forthcoming book by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns of The New York Times detailed the incident, as The Washington Examiner reported.
During a meeting in May 2021, Biden was attempting to convince Republicans to support his $1 trillion in spending on infrastructure.
“Harris thought that there was something missing from the conversation,” notably family and other social spending programs, Martin and Burns explained in “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future.”
According to the authors, Harris “began to make the case for a larger package than the one Republicans seemed to have in mind.”
Biden reportedly “dismissed her comment immediately.”
The authors noted that “even the Republican senators were taken aback” by his response.
Earlier this week, Fox News reported on the book’s look into Biden’s reservations to choose Harris as his running mate.
The book mentioned Harris’ “past romantic relationship with Willie Brown, the former San Francisco mayor who had appointed Harris to a pair of minor political positions.”