(CNN) Joe Biden's next political nightmare is inflation , a force that can destroy family budgets and political careers and is being driven by domestic and global factors tough for a president to quickly fix. The White House has sometimes been slow to respond to flashing red political warnings -- for instance, over immigration. But the political task ahead of him requires a relentless daily focus and repeated strong messaging that has not so far been a strength of the Biden White House. Those figures suggest that to improve his political standing, Biden must now flip from Covid-battler in chief to rescuing a sense of economic wellbeing. Still, White House chief of staff Ron Klain on Thursday insisted that the economy was improving specifically because of steps taken by Biden.

Source: CNN November 12, 2021 03:27 UTC