WASHINGTON — Encouraging jobs numbers for October and news of a highly effective new COVID-19 treatment about to hit the market gave President Biden an encouraging capstone to a week that saw Democrats lose control of the gubernatorial mansion in Virginia while failing to come to an agreement on the president’s domestic spending bill in Washington.

“It’s been a long week, guys,” principal deputy White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre joked as she took to the podium at the White House Briefing Room on Friday afternoon. “It’s been a long week.”

The long but not altogether disastrous week began with the president in Glasgow, meeting with international counterparts on climate change.