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Biden is taking questions on his first year in office. Watch our live coverage and analysis. washingtonpost.com/video/national…

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Biden opens news conference touting ‘year of enormous progress’ wapo.st/32k7yYM

Biden denied that he had overpromised what he could accomplish in his first year in office, but acknowledged one thing he had not been able to do so far was “get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country.” wapo.st/3qGScGT

The president, after being asked by a reporter if he believed he had to be “more realistic” and scale down his agenda in order to get portions of it passed, at first demurred, but then said breaking up the package would be realistic. wapo.st/3nFAdyI

Biden said he expects Russian President Vladimir Putin to take some sort of action to “move in” and invade Ukraine, and that the U.S. response “depends on what he does.” wapo.st/34U5Fmj

Biden said that he had “no apologies” for pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in August and that they would never have been able to unify the country

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Biden was asked whether he’s satisfied with Vice President Harris’s work on voting rights and if he commits to naming her as his running mate in 2024.

“Yes and yes,” the president simply replied.

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Recent public opinion polls have shown Biden’s popularity among independent voters has taken a sharp dip — a major factor in the president’s popularity rating sliding into the low 40s. But Biden suggested that he’s not worried about those numbers. wapo.st/3KqiTYe

Analysis: 4 takeaways from President Biden’s news conference wapo.st/3fHUTlg