President Biden’s closest advisers are discovering — or in some cases, rediscovering — that governing is harder than campaign-trail promises to return technocratic policymaking to Washington.

Several of Biden’s senior aides, whose collective experience he bragged about during the post-election transition, are not hitting the ground as smoothly as they likely expected almost two weeks after they moved into the White House and other federal government offices.

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