Another Biden administration staffer is leaving his position. State Department spokesman Ned Price is leaving his job to work directly with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He is taking on a policy-focused role in the department.

Unlike his counterpart, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Price seems like a professional. So, moving up to working directly with Blinken tracks. Price has been the State Department’s spokesman since the first day of the Biden administration.

Price, who also served as spokesperson at both the CIA and the National Security Council in the Obama administration, says the new policy job is a return to where his career began.

“I started as a public servant as an analyst at the CIA, and I ended up in this job because of a series of accidents, fateful accidents,” Price said. “I have loved being in this line of work for the past several years. And one of the things I love most about it is the connection to the policy.”

Blinken issued a statement praising Price’s grasp of policies.

Blinken, in a statement, praised Price’s “firm grasp of the policies underlying the State Department’s messaging” that made him that much more effective in his communications role.

And, Blinken noted that Price brought back the State Department’s daily press briefings.

In his statement, Blinken particularly thanked Price for bringing back the department’s daily press briefings, which were irregular during the Trump administration, praising Price for “giving journalists the chance to regularly ask tough questions of our policy.”

“Ned has helped the U.S. government defend and promote press freedom around the globe and modeled the transparency and openness we advocate for in other countries,” Blinken added. “His contributions will benefit the Department long after his service.”

One reporter, the president of the State Department Correspondents’ Association, said the press briefings are good because it causes the department to defend the administration’s foreign policy decisions.

“It offers an opportunity for press from around the world to question the foreign policy of the United States, often critically, and requires the State Department to defend it,” Shaun Tandon, a correspondent with Agence France-Presse and president of the State Department Correspondents’ Association, said in a statement congratulating Price on his new role. “It is a tribute to the health of American democracy.”

In that respect, Price has had a challenging job. Imagine having to defend Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in the first few months of his term in office. Right off the bat, Biden proved the opinion of the former Secretary of Defense in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations of Biden’s foreign policy skills to be correct. Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Biden has been historically wrong in his policy decisions, despite Democrats trying to convince us for years about how foreign policy is his strong suit. There are a lot of Afghans who beg to differ. The withdrawal from Afghanistan is still creating problems for the United States and will continue to do so for years to come. Thousands of people were left behind after being told for years that the United States would take care of them for their service to American military members. What a disgrace. Biden’s record of bad policy decisions remains intact.

Since the disaster in Afghanistan, Biden has not improved. The State Department has frequently been on the hook for explanations for other decisions. Since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, questions continue. Biden tends to say one thing one day and another thing another day. The latest example is whether or not America will supply the Ukrainians with fighter jets. In January, Biden said that no, the United States will not supply Ukraine with fighter jets, though Zelensky has specifically asked for them.

Modern fighter jets would, experts say, give Ukraine an unprecedented ability to strike deep behind Russian lines, and to make it harder for Russian bombers to target Ukrainian territory with the current degree of impunity.

Zelensky continues to ask. Biden now says that he will not approve fighter jets for Ukraine ‘now,” implying his decision will change in the future. It was reported last week that two Ukrainian pilots are in the United States “undergoing an assessment to determine how long it could take to train them to fly attack aircraft, including F-16 fighter jets.”

The Ukrainians’ skills are being evaluated on simulators at a U.S. military base in Tucson, Arizona, the officials said, and they may soon be joined by more of their fellow pilots.

U.S. authorities have approved bringing up to 10 more Ukrainian pilots to the U.S. for further assessment as early as this month, the officials said.

Their arrival marks the first time Ukrainian pilots have traveled to the U.S. to have their skills evaluated by American military trainers. Officials said the effort has twin goals: to improve the pilots’ skills and to evaluate how long a proper training program could take.

Sounds like Sleepy Joe has changed his mind about the fighter jets, doesn’t it?

Good luck to the next spokesman charged with answering questions about dithering Joe’s decisions. Price’s current deputy, Vedant Patel, will serve as his temporary replacement.