At End of First Year in Office Biden Blasts Republicans, Predicts Russia ‘Will Move In’

President Joe Biden continued to blame Republican opposition for impeding his domestic agenda and predicted that Russia “will move in” on Ukraine during his second formal press conference as president on Wednesday, the eve of his first year in office. During the roughly two-hour session with reporters, Biden discussed the immediate issues of inflation, attempts at diplomacy with Russia and his stalled legislation in the Senate. He also answered questions related to his administration’s performance in its first year—discussing the COVID response, the military exit and evacuation of Afghanistan and his campaign promise to unite the country. “I didn’t overpromise,” Biden said. “But I think if you take a look at what we’ve been able to do you’d have to acknowledge that we made enormous progress.” Biden touted federal efforts to distribute the vaccine for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, a decline of unemployment to 3.9 percent, and the …