Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2021
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Photo credit: Cameron Smith/White House/Newscom
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House last month. Biden will address both chambers of Congress tonight as Harris makes history as the first female vice president to attend a joint speech. Cameron Smith/White House/Newscom
President Biden is expected to use his first congressional address tonight to tout how the first 100 days of his administration have yielded the most ambitious climate policy of any U.S. president.
But much of it depends on forces beyond his reach.
Biden’s plan represents an aggressive effort during a pandemic to change the social safety net by providing better child care for families, free community college and prekindergarten, and paid parental leave much of it paid for by increased taxes on the wealthy.
All the same, it falls well short of what progressive leaders want, and is already leading to a scramble in the House and Senate as lawmakers seek to add to a package that has yet to be formally unveiled.
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Progressives happy with the first 100 days of Biden’s presidency have raised their expectations, and it may be tough for Biden to keep them satisfied.
… In five emails sent during the last week of December and early January, Mr. Meadows asked Jeffrey A. Rosen, then the acting attorney general, to examine debunked claims of election fraud in New Mexico and an array of baseless conspiracies that held that Mr. Trump had been the actual victor. That included a fantastical theory that people in Italy had used military technology and satellites to remotely tamper with voting machines in the United States and switch votes for Mr. Trump to votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr…
Mr. Trump chose Mr. Meadows, an ultraconservative congressman from North Carolina, to serve as his fourth and final chief of staff last March. A founder of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, Mr. Meadows was among Mr. Trump’s most loyal and vocal defenders on Capitol Hill, and had been a fierce critic of the Russia investigation.
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US President Joe Biden s infrastructure plan will have to negotiate some partisan crosscurrents if it is to become law, with some in Congress calling for a two-part plan while others seek even more spending.
A leading Democratic senator said on Monday that he favors keeping everything together in the package.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois told reporters at the Capitol in Washington that sending up one bipartisan package centered on roads, bridges and transit and then turning to a second one with Democratic priorities such as child care and healthcare could be a mistake.