Ms. Yellen’s and Other Regrets

If these top officials had piped up sooner, one can imagine that America could have been spared the apologies.

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Secretary Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill on March 21, 2024. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Now they tell us. President Biden’s head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, P.J. Lechleitner, is grousing that the commander in chief “absolutely” should have acted sooner on border security and curbing the flood of migrants into America. Those regrets follow Secretary Yellen’s lament that the Biden administration’s overspending on Covid stimulus contributed to the inflation spiral that saw prices surge some 20 percent since 2021.

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