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President Joe Biden, who ran on his deep relationships in Senate and ability to
build bridges, will cap off his first year in office with his legislative agenda
at a standstill – unable to get his Democratic Party fully united and facing
steep opposition from Republicans. Biden's major legislative priorities are in
limbo after Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of
Arizona didn't cave to Biden's pressure and refused to roll back the filibuster
to pass legislation without GOP support. Joe Biden legislative agenda going
nowhere 1 year into presidency Biden will mark the one-year anniversary of his
Jan. 20 inauguration with no clear path forward on passing high-priority voting
rights legislation and his Build Back Better social spending plan. He candidly
acknowledged his struggles Thursday after a meeting with Senate Democrats at the
Capitol. "The honest to God answer is I don’t know whether we can get this
done," Biden said of his voting rights agenda. "I hope we can get this done, but
I’m not sure," he added. Biden is grappling with razor-thin Democratic
majorities in the House and Senate which have proved problematic to passing some
sweeping reforms the Democratic base wants. Just one Democratic senator has the
power to scuttle his plans in the 50-50 split Senate. A group of Republicans was
willing to go along with Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill that he signed
into law in November to rebuild the nation's crumbling roads, bridges, ports and
more. It was a major legislative win and realization of his promise to bring the
two parties together. But the comradery was short-lived. Now Republicans say
Biden's agenda is out of touch and too extreme to garner their support. "It is
really telling that there were Americans that voted for President Biden hoping
that he could somehow emerge as a leader," Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, told Fox
News Digital. "And he has proven that he does not have the capabilities to be a
strong leader." Ernst blames Biden for rising inflation, the deadly and hasty
withdrawal fromAfghanistan and a surge of migrants at the Southern border. She
says Biden's priorities are out of step with what Iowans want. Asked how his
legislative agenda was faring, Ernst replied: "I'm glad that you reminded me
that President Biden has an agenda, because I have forgotten he had one. It
really has gone out the window." Biden further alienated himself from
Republicans with a heated speech in Atlanta this week when he urged the Senate
to get rid of the long-standing filibuster to pass voting rights bills and
implied those who didn't support the legislation were on the side of racists
like Bull Connor and George Wallace. A fuming Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
blasted Biden's speech as "profoundly unpresidential" and "deliberately
divisive." "I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many
years," McConnell said Wednesday. "I did not recognize the man at that podium
yesterday." Aside from the bipartisan infrastructure package, Biden's other
major legislative win last year was the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill he
signed into law in March without any GOP support. The package included a $1,400
check for many Americans, an extension of a $300 weekly unemployment aid
supplement through Sept. 6, as well as a one-year expansion of the child tax
credit. It also provided hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for state
and local governments, vaccine distribution efforts and small businesses still
reeling from the pandemic. Ten months later, the pandemic is far from over. And
Biden's other main legislative vehicle to boost the economy and expand the
social safety net is on ice. The $2 trillion Build Back Better social spending
and climate change bill has effectively died in the Senate with Manchin
announcing in December that he couldn't support it. Biden had a history of
working productively with Manchin and affectionately called him Jo-Jo. Biden
even appointed his wife, Gayle Manchin, to serve as federal co-chair of the
Appalachian Regional Commission. The job pays roughly $163,000, according to a
federal database. Unable to convince Manchin to support his agenda, Democrats
Friday turned to touting the benefits of the previously passed infrastructure
bill as a way to move on. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said he
thinks Biden has been working very hard to pass the voting rights and Build Back
Better bills, but he faults Republicans for the setbacks. "In order to get
things done … you need two parties," Hoyer said when asked about the Biden
agenda by Fox News Digital. "It takes two to tango." He said Republicans are
trying to deny Biden any more victories for political reasons, which he says is
"sad." "No matter how hard the President of the United States works, if one
party is determined, for political reasons, to oppose something because it would
give a success or a victory to the President of the United States, that is very
shortsighted and harms the country," Hoyer said. "You're not harming Joe Biden
personally. What you're harming is the country." Thursday marks the one-year
anniversary of Biden's inauguration. Republicans are planning to mark the
occasion by highlighting Biden’s first year of "failure" and arguing the GOP is
better equipped to lead. NOTE: Is Biden's presidency doomed? President Joe Biden
is struggling politically. Recent polls have shown that his approval ratings
continue to fall. According to CNN's Poll of Polls, the President stands at 42%,
while Quinnipiac's January poll placed him at 33%. Those are the kinds of
numbers that would leave any White House unsettled. The fate of the Build Back
Better legislation remains precarious, while the President's emboldened words
about the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
were tougher than ever. On Tuesday, he asked elected officials, "Do you want to
be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?" in what appeared to be a question
implicitly targeting Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of
Arizona, who still refuse to accept the filibuster carve-out that would allow
the voting rights legislation to overcome Republican opposition. Even worse,
Omicron has driven up hospitalizations and left huge swaths of the population
despondent about when the pandemic will come to an end. "It's déjà vu all over
again," as the baseball legend Yogi Berra liked to say. Others complain that the
President isn't even doing a good job showcasing his many accomplishments.
"Jobs, jabs, infrastructure, prosperity and peace," one columnist urged in a
piece criticizing Biden for failing to boast enough about what his
administration has done. Then there is inflation. Rising prices are overwhelming
all good economic news in recent days, including low unemployment and a buoyant
economy. Although initially many economists thought that the price increases
would be "transitory," the widely accepted outlook is that inflation will remain
high for a while. One Nevada voter, Laura Godinez, who told CNN she used to lean
Republican but had shifted toward the Democrats in recent elections, commented:
"I don't want to say this, but when Donald Trump was here, it was nothing like
this." Does this all add up to a doomed presidency? That question will naturally
enter into the minds of Democrats as they speculate about where this is heading,
particularly with the distinct possibility that Trump could run again in 2024.
Those who are worried should find some solace in the fact that contemporary
presidents have been able to come back from difficult moments like these.
Challenging first terms don't inevitably put a commander in chief on path toward
a one-term presidency. It's possible to struggle in the polls, deal with
difficult economic challenges and criticism from different factions of one's own
party and still go on to be considered a successful two-term president.
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