President Biden made a surprise visit to the White House briefing room Friday to hail positive economic news on multiple fronts, including the end of a dockworkers’ strike and positive job numbers.

The White House chief of staff recalled how Biden came into office with what he described as “a once-in-a-generation pandemic and an unprecedented shutdown in the economy” for which the outgoing administration had left “no plan or path forward.”

After 1,080 days as president, Joe Biden on Friday decided to pop in and take questions in the White House briefing room for the first time