Biden to Address Supply Chain Logjam: Expanded Port Hours, Extra Shifts for Longshoremen

As supply chain disruptions make national headlines, leaving American businesses with fewer imported products to sell, President Biden today will meet with leaders of the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, where ships wait offshore for room to unload their cargo, and cargo containers stack up on the docks, awaiting trucks to move the goods.

The White House announcement said Biden "knew there would be massive economic challenges emerging from the pandemic," and his administration "acted quickly" to get relief checks to Americans and shots in arms.

But aside from...