July 8, 2021: BIF, Delta, Russia, Afghanistan Is Biden doing enough?
With Congress gone, Joe Biden, our low-key president, has been the main story in Washington. He\u2019s already addressed two major issues this week: how to respond to the Delta Covid-19 variant, and attempting to sell the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework and his American Families Plan to Trump-voting skeptics in Illinois.\nToday, he grapples with two big foreign policy dilemmas: He\u2019ll receive an update in the Situation Room about Afghanistan and then address the public about the American withdrawal. He also told reporters Wednesday he would decide today what to do about the recent Russian cyberattacks.\nRaghu Manavalan is the host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the senior producer for POLITICO Audio.\xa0Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.