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Re Edward Chevallier's comments on the Voices page of the Sunday paper: "[Joe] Biden got there because of 50 years of riding the back bench, and, well, we all know how [Kamala] Harris got there, don't we?"

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration will not send any American government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making official a diplomatic boycott to pressure China over human-rights abuses -- a move that China has vowed to greet with "firm countermeasures."

WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration will not send any American government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, making official a diplomatic boycott to pressure China over human-rights abuses -- a move that China has vowed to greet with "firm countermeasures."

POLITICO Get the New York Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by FWD.us Today’s the day New York starts getting back to normal, sort of. Pandemic capacity restrictions will be lifted almost everywhere, as will the mask mandate for vaccinated New Yorkers in most locations.

Andrew Cuomo’s Bad Press Since December, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, has not taken an in-person question from a reporter. Amid compounding crises, Cuomo––who was hailed by much of the national press at the height of New York’s COVID outbreak––has hidden from journalists, under the guise of health and safety protocols. (No matter that he held briefings last spring, when COVID peaked in New York, with reporters allowed inside.) His recent press conferences have been stacked, instead, with supporters.  On Monday, Josefa Velásquez, of THE CITY, asked Cuomo when he’d l...