Building an effective response to the virus has been the central project of Biden’s presidency — the one issue his advisers thought he would be judged on more than any other and the one, they think, that could unlock progress for other ambitious items on his agenda. Biden has argued that the past year has exposed American inequities in a more vivid way than ever before, and he has laid the groundwork for the types of sweeping changes that he is trying to persuade Congress to pass.

Source: Washington Post May 14, 2021 00:12 UTC