Biden ‘AWOL’ amid shutdown fight: ‘He’s completely disappeared’

President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week.

Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies were the ones wrestling with lawmakers over a continuing resolution as a government shutdown appeared increasingly inevitable.

The White House on Friday blew off a host of questioning over Biden’s absence from the talks, insisting they were staying out of it in part because it was Republicans...