“This is really one where, who blinks first?”

Biden’s State of the Union address this week praised his administration’s accomplishment on jobs while calling for more to be done on manufacturing, tax reform, and repairing the political divide, although the response was anything but unifying. Meanwhile, an alleged spy balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina brings fresh tensions in the relationship between the US and China. We’re also talking about medical crises facing everyday Americans, massive investment plans for Central America, and the Turkey-Syria earthquake.

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