{"id":35813,"date":"2021-08-24T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/23\/joe-biden-mounting-pressure-afghanistan-withdrawal-covid"},"modified":"2021-08-24T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T23:08:11","slug":"biden-under-pressure-over-afghanistan-and-covid-as-approval-ratings-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35813","title":{"rendered":"Biden under pressure over Afghanistan and Covid as approval ratings slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>President urged to extend deadline for full US troop withdrawal<\/li>\n<li>Virus cases rise but FDA issues full approval for Pfizer vaccine <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Biden faced mounting pressure at home and abroad on Monday as he raced against time to deal with evacuations from<strong> <\/strong>Afghanistan, a surging coronavirus pandemic and a vital congressional vote on his domestic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u2019s job approval rating fell below 50% for the first time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/biden-s-job-ratings-decline-amid-covid-surge-afghanistan-withdrawal-n1277368\">an NBC News poll,<\/a> with just 25% approving of his handling of Afghanistan, which was overrun by the Taliban this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/us-criticised-as-it-races-against-time-to-save-its-afghan-helpers-from-taliban\">far quicker<\/a> than he predicted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/aug\/23\/joe-biden-mounting-pressure-afghanistan-withdrawal-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President urged to extend deadline for full US troop withdrawalVirus cases rise but FDA issues full approval for Pfizer vaccine Joe Biden faced mounting pressure at home and abroad on Monday as he raced against time to deal with evacuations from Afghan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,939,61,45,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35814,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35813\/revisions\/35814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}