By Alex Lang New York (Knewz) — President Joe Biden is trying to do damage control in the wake of surprising news that the U.S. gross domestic product shrunk to start 2022. On April 28, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its report on the U.S. GDP for the first quarter and noted that it shrunk by 1.4 percent. That is the worst quarter in nearly two years. It’s the first drop since the second quarter of 2020 — when basically the world shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden and the White House have tried to undertake damage control on the U.S. GDP news, often pointing to th…