Biden's White House is battling over the border – here's what history tells us could happen next

The New York Times recently provided a rare exposure to internal infighting in the Biden administration. According to the Times, internal disagreements on border security policy, have exposed serious fault lines inside the administration

This is so in part because this administration has less drama than its predecessor, in part because the media is looking for it less, and in part because, according to Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes’ book "Lucky", Biden himself dislikes process stories, by which he means stories about internal disagreements.

Internal fights are really not supposed to happen, as people inside an administration are putatively on the same team.  Yet when serious policy differences emerge, the nastiness can really follow.  We have seen this before in the White House, as internal debates can set sharp elbows flying, at times with long-standing implications.