 Axios reports that Biden's behavior stunned so many in the White House, in part because Biden's closest aides, often led by Jill Biden's top aide, Anthony Bernal, and deputy chief of staff, Annie Tomasini, they took steps early in his term to essentially rope off the president. Even the White House's residence staff, which serves the first family in the mansion's living quarters, has been kept at arm's length. A former residence official told Axios that Jill Biden was so protective of the president