Morning Jolt: Biden Faces a Wall of Blinking Red Lights

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On the menu today: While some other Washington-focused publications warn about a trio of potential foreign crises, there's a buffet table of foreign- and domestic-policy ticking time bombs facing the Biden administration. And everything seems fine as America slowly emerges from the pandemic, as long as you don't look too closely.

More Than Three Blinking Red Lights

Over at Axios yesterday, Mike Allen warned that there are three blinking red lights facing the Biden administration: "Russia is menacing Ukraine's borders, China is sending increasingly ominous signals over Taiwan and Iran is accelerating its uranium enrichment to unprecedented levels."

All of that is true and worthy of attention, but I feel that describing them as "Biden's three blinking red lights" undersells the other worsening policy problems facing the administration. (I would insert a "there are four lights!" joke here, except there ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY April 19 2021
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WITH JIM GERAGHTY April 19 2021
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Biden Faces a Wall of Blinking Red Lights

On the menu today: While some other Washington-focused publications warn about a trio of potential foreign crises, there's a buffet table of foreign- and domestic-policy ticking time bombs facing the Biden administration. And everything seems fine as America slowly emerges from the pandemic, as long as you don't look too closely.

More Than Three Blinking Red Lights

Over at Axios yesterday, Mike Allen warned that there are three blinking red lights facing the Biden administration: "Russia is menacing Ukraine's borders, China is sending increasingly ominous signals over Taiwan and Iran is accelerating its uranium enrichment to unprecedented levels."

All of that is true and worthy of attention, but I feel that describing them as "Biden's three blinking red lights" undersells the other worsening policy problems facing the administration. (I would insert a "there are four lights!" joke here, except there ...   READ MORE

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