August Vignettes: views from The White House, The Hill and on the trail in Grand Rapids, MI. @POTUS’s run of major policy achievements. All summer, Biden’s domestic policy agenda seemed to lay in shambles with inflation going crazy. Aides worry that he’s too old — He caught COVID-19, recovered, and then tested positive again. He also fell off his bike. Then gas prices started to trend down, and Congress passed some major legislation. It began with a bipartisan gun control bill, continued with a bipartisan bill boosting domestic computer chip makers, and culminated with the Inflation Reduction Act, a fulfillment of longstanding Democratic goals for more green energy and cheaper prescription drugs. (📷: @latimes / @latimesphotos)