At White House briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki was still unable to give a time as to when President Joe Biden would be holding a press conference where reporters could ask him direct questions.
"You mentioned that the president is expected to give a formal press briefing by the end of the month, so that is imminent, in the next few weeks we can will see him take questions and follow-ups and so forth?"
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Reporters have been clamoring to have a proper press conference since Biden took office in January. Psaki said that Biden has taken questions from reporters 40 times, but reporters contend that these have been incredibly limited opportunities. Recently, when Biden said at the end of an announcement that he would take questions, his camera was abruptly turned off.
"He has done about 40 Q&A's since he took office, but in terms of a formal press conference, which I understand there's a big focus on, yes, we will have one by the end of the month."
A reporter asked "What does this mean going forward? Will we see more of President Biden?"
Psaki interrupted "More than 40 Q&A's in the last month?"
"Will he be submitted to more extensive questions, follow-ups, the kind of things we're doing today? Will we see him regularly?"
"I don't know that you'll see him more than 40 times a month but I'm happy to ask him that question," Psaki replied.
On Friday, Psaki was asked why Biden hasn't taken press conferences, and she said basically that he was too busy. Psaki said that the reason President Biden doesn't take reporter questions and hasn't held a press conference because the "two historic crises," of the coronavirus and the economy, have kept his "focus, energy and attention."
Biden will be addressing the nation on Thursday in a speech to mark the one year anniversary of American lockdowns. He has not set a date to give a State of the Union speech to Congress, though it is rather late into his first term to not have given one.
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