ABSTRACT
Biden’s White House is larger with about 560 senior, junior, and secretarial and support staff working there on an ongoing basis. The White House claimed that the increase in personnel was needed to cope with the magnitude of the problems the president faced when he was first elected; including the pandemic and its economic impact, hacking and cybersecurity, racial, ethnic, and income inequities, and the need to form a commission to study the improvement and possible expansion of the federal judiciary. Biden’s White House has sometimes been criticized for its slow reaction to new situations that command public attention. The White House scheduled daily press conferences; provided in-depth briefings to reporters; and distributed readouts of major policy decisions and executive actions on its website along with fact sheets to support them. Again, the contrast with Trump was intentional, designed to show a hard-working but not self-promoting President Biden who determined and promoted his major policy initiatives and legislative successes.
