Davos Has It All Again — Except the World’s Most Powerful Person
- Biden administration has light footprint at Swiss retreat
- Joe Manchin gets star treatment in absence of Biden, top aides
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The world’s elite flocked back to the Swiss ski town of Davos this week, celebrating the post-pandemic return of the World Economic Forum. But among the assembled billionaires, bankers, politicians and philanthropists, there was a low-level grumble: Where are the Americans?
Among the absentees was President Joe Biden, who presides over the world’s largest economy. Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken also were no-shows. Nobody from the White House was dispatched to the summit.