Democrats inside and outside of the West Wing are frustrated by the White House's response to the Biden documents.

 The way the White House has informed the public about the discovery of documents with classified markings at President Biden's former office and his home in Delaware has angered West Wing staffers, officials from across the Biden administration, and Democratic Party officials more broadly, according to CBS News.

Those who spoke with CBS News on the condition of anonymity in order to speak openly about the matter and preserve their professional relationships feel that the president's cherished promises of transparency and competent management of the government were undermined by the decision not to announce the discovery of the documents sooner.

They also worry that the White House's ability to confirm even the most basic details will be greatly constrained now that a special counsel probe is under way.

A Friday statement from a Democrat close to the White House claimed, "They're attempting to put lipstick on a pig." The issue is that they were only given one stick of lipstick and 50 pigs this week.

According to a Northeastern Democratic Party official who is close to the president and his top staff, "There isn't really a comparison to be made between the Biden and Trump document situations. But why on earth didn't they publish the news earlier, perhaps before the holidays? And why didn't they release the entire narrative at once rather than piecemeal with each new document found? Simply said, it was not handled at all well."

Some Democrats in the House are speaking out more about their worries about the situation.

"That wasn't supposed to happen. It requires investigation, which is already being done, "Democratic representative from California Zoe Lofgren stated on MSNBC on Saturday. "As a result, we will have to wait to learn all the specifics, but I have no doubt that we will. Since I haven't spoken to him, I can only assume he is angry about it, but who could be?"

In a broader sense, Rep. Matt Cartwright, a centrist Democrat from Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the president is from, said on Fox News that the federal government needs to "review how departing presidents and vice presidents are going about organising the archiving of their documents, both classified and unclassified, because this can't go on."

He continued, "You're talking about people who are all lining up, they're rewriting their resumes, they're sending them out for new jobs, they're not thinking about, you know, business at hand, it seems to me. Whether it's President Trump leaving office or Vice President Biden leaving office.

The president's personal lawyer, Bob Bauer, defended the public announcement of the discovery of the materials in a statement released on Saturday "attempted to strike a balance between the necessity of public transparency where appropriate and the standards and restrictions required to maintain the integrity of the investigation. The public publication of information pertaining to the inquiry while it is continuing must be avoided due to these factors."

The White House Counsel's office, which is in charge of defending the president in official affairs, announced in a separate statement that it will direct any future press queries about the specifics of the ongoing investigation and discovery of the papers to the Justice Department.

Many Democrats are especially sensitive to media reports that contrast the materials found at Mr. Biden's former workplace and Delaware estate with the National Archives' protracted efforts to obtain hundreds of classified documents from former President Donald Trump over the course of several months.

According to Kyle Herrig, executive director of the Congressional Integrity Project, "comparing Biden's collaboration to Trump's obstruction is like comparing apples with arsenic."

The Democrat-aligned organisation is intended to act as a neutral force in the upcoming onslaught of House Republican oversight investigations, supporting the president and congressional Democrats.

She urged them to say that the president "is cooperating fully" while Trump "repeatedly obstructed efforts to retrieve sensitive documents to the point the Department of Justice had to obtain and execute a search warrant." Herrig sent updated suggested talking points to prominent party activists and frequent television guests on Friday.

The Biden and Trump cases were described by Herrig as, "Interaction vs. Blockade. Stolen vs. misplaced. Subpoena versus voluntary. Instant vs Search Warrant"

Given Mr. Biden's prior criticism of Trump's handling of secret information, another Democrat who advised Mr. Biden's 2020 campaign and has worked in campaign politics in the South and West for decades called the current predicament "hypocritical."

This Democrat, however, claimed that the White House was "sharp" in its reaction to recent positive economic data showing a further decline in inflation and growing Republican calls for cutting federal entitlement programmes in exchange for raising the country's debt ceiling, which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned must be done by early June.

This Democrat stated that the president's political standing should improve if he remains committed to boosting the economy. "Do the documents in Trump's home or Biden's garage truly interest the general populace in America? Not in my opinion. They appear to be more concerned with egg carton costs, in my opinion."

Additional classified Biden documents are discovered.

 A new set of secret federal documents have been discovered by the aides to US Vice President Joe Biden at a second location, adding to the White House's mounting political embarrassment.

The first cache was discovered at Mr. Biden's post-vice-presidential private office in Washington, D.C.

The US Department of Justice is investigating the situation.

Donald Trump, a former president, is under criminal investigation for allegedly handling secret documents improperly.

On Wednesday, it remained unclear when or where Biden's staff discovered the extra batch of documents.

Only this week has the first batch of roughly 10 documents been made public after it was found in November at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank close to the White House.

These documents apparently contain US intelligence notes and briefing materials about the UK, Iran, and Ukraine.

Although it's not obvious why they ended up in the private office he started using after that, they are related to his time serving as vice president under President Barack Obama.

Laws governing how secret materials are kept and stored limit access to them to those with special authorization.

After an administration leaves office, all White House records, including those that are secret, must be given to the US National Archives.

Regarding the recently found batch, the White House has not yet made any remarks. However, CBS, a US partner of the BBC, and other US media outlets have corroborated the discovery.

Karine Jean-Pierre, the press secretary for Biden, declined to respond to inquiries regarding the initial trove of documents during her daily news briefing on Wednesday.

The Department of Justice is looking into this, she said. I won't add anything to what the president said yesterday.

She was questioned about the delay in the news's public release of two months, but she steadfastly refused to explain when Mr. Biden had been informed of it. The revelation was made just a few days before the US midterm elections.

On Tuesday, Mr. Biden stated that he was "surprised" to learn the news and that he was "cooperating" with the law department's investigation.

The debate occurs when a new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives scrutinises the Democratic president.

According to James Comer, the incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee, "oversight and accountability are coming now that Democrats no longer have one-party rule in Washington."

The committee is looking into the president and his family, and part of that investigation will involve asking the White House to provide records and correspondence pertaining to the classified files.

According to the White House, Mr. Biden's attorneys notified the archives as soon as they found the secret documents at the think tank, and the agency picked them up the following morning.

When Mr. Biden's predecessor's Florida residence was inspected by FBI investigators in August of last year, they found over 10,000 documents that Mr. Trump had not yet given to the National Archives.

Before the FBI arrived at Mar-a-Lago, the justice department had issued a demand for the return of the confidential documents.

Federal authorities seized more than 300 documents with classified markings from the Palm Beach golf club, including 18 with the top secret designation.

Biden submits a timeline

From January 2009 to January 2017, he served as Barack Obama's vice president. From 2018 to 2020, he used a private office in the Penn Biden Center thanks to his connections at the University of Pennsylvania.

First batch of secret documents were discovered at this office on November 2, 2022. CBS News reported on this finding on January 9, 2023.

11 January 2023: NBC News reports on a second discovery made at a different site.

Biden intends to make his first presidential trip to the border between the United States and Mexico.

 When he travels to Mexico next week, the president, Joe Biden, announced on Wednesday that he intends to stop at the border.

As he travels to Mexico City for the North American Leaders' Summit, Biden told reporters following a meeting in Kentucky that it is his "intention" to stop at the border.

Without revealing where on the border he will go, he said, "We're working out the logistics now.

Additionally, Biden told reporters that he would be giving a statement on Thursday about border security.

Biden stated on a visit to the border, "I'm simply going to observe what's going on.

Biden is visiting the border for the first time as president.

Biden has consistently come under fire from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for refusing to travel to the border despite increased migration at the ports of entry.

Republicans, who won the majority in the House in the midterm elections in November, have vowed to criticise the administration for its allegedly ineffective border policies.

It wasn't immediately apparent where Biden will travel along the nearly 2,000-mile border. However, El Paso, Texas, has recently been the heart of a humanitarian immigration crisis.

Each month, tens of thousands of migrants cross the border in El Paso, including more than 50,000 in each of the months of October and November.

Following the release of more than 10,000 migrants and asylum seekers by Border Patrol in a single week, El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser announced a state of emergency last month. Numerous people have reportedly camped out on city streets.

Many of the migrants that Border Patrol has freed are difficult to send back to Mexico or their home countries in accordance with Title 42.

Some members of Congress have already praised Biden for his decision to go to the border.

Some members of Congress have already praised Biden for his decision to go to the border.

I commend your travel to our southern border, the president was told in a tweet from Laredo Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar, who has been urging the administration to act more forcefully to control the border.

The senior Texas congressman from a border district, Cuellar, stated, "Our border communities are witnessing a crisis, the depth of which can only be understood by seeing it personally." "We appreciate you starting to handle this matter.