Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, September 7th. I'm Nailibudu. It's great to be back with you.

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Mike Allen on the roadblocks in front of President Biden as we head into this fall.

It's been a turbulent political summer, most recently with the Texas abortion ban that dominated the headlines last week.

Now that summer is over, everyone is back from vacation, including me and back to work in school.

And so I'm wondering as we look towards the fall, what is next? No better to ask that than Axios co-founder Mike Allen. Good morning, Mike.

Nailib, welcome back.

Thank you. Mike, it's the first week of fall. What does the agenda look like for President Biden in this first week back to work?

I've not had so many different tracks playing as we started a fall in all the time that I've been doing this.

So look at what we've got, like at home, massive time for the Biden agenda finishing out the summer.

Senator Joe Manson said, oh, by the way, let's hit pause on that 3.5 trillion dollars that you queued up to rewire the American safety net might be less than that.

So that is going on an extremely solemn week, of course, the 20th anniversary of 9.11 will be hearing about that all week and then Saturday.

President Biden, the first lady traveling to all three of the sites for that day, like a very emotional trip and moment.

And this is what I mean about so many tracks early in the week.

President Biden is going to be in Queens and New Jersey today after Ida and Norland still doesn't have electricity.

It's more than leaders have dealt with ever. And I have not said one word Naila. What's that word? Afghanistan.

Like so much of what we've talked about it seems like with the Biden presidency is what President Biden has on his agenda versus what keeps happening in the world.

How much of how much are we going to see that interplay this week in particular?

Yeah, now President Biden, who had been on a roll, things had been going pretty well for him, his agenda had been on track, the economy jobs were on track, COVID vaccinations were on track.

Now all those individually are at risk. And now you have the backdrop of a massive international crisis with questions about how his administration handled it.

These of course are all interlinked. They all depend on his attention, his competence, his popularity, his muscle. And that's the drama for this fall.

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