After passing President Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure bill, Democrats are returning to his even bigger $1.75 trillion package to expand health, child, elder care and climate change programs. This time, there won't be bipartisan support.
— all have oversized influence to dictate terms of a deal and the schedule of votes.
Roosevelt launched his New Deal programs at the start of his first term amid the Great Depression, his landslide election swelling the Democratic hold on Congress to more than 300 members early in his presidency. Johnson’s Great Society bills benefitted from similarly big Democratic majorities in Congress. He had nearly 300 House Democrats in 1965.
While even Republican Ronald Reagan had help from Democrats for a balanced budget bill in 1981, today’s locked-in partisanship splits the country along geographic, cultural and and political lines, leaving more recent administrations to take a go-it alone approach. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is determined to push ahead with just a few votes to spare on Biden’s big bill once lawmakers return next Monday.
The Senate terrain is even more perilous. Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the first party leader in some two decades to navigate a 50-50 split in what’s now a wholly different era producing self-styled mavericks and zero crossover votes.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Joe Biden scores victory as infrastructure bill passes, Democratic factions call truce“This weekend is going to be known as the weekend that saved our subways.” Sen. Chuck Schumer celebrated the billions of dollars that will be allocated to New York City’s subways under President Joe Biden’s newly-passed infrastructure bill. Read more:
Lire la suite »
COVID-19 live updates: Biden administration urges schools to provide shots, infoAs the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 754,000 Americans.
Lire la suite »
Economy under first ten months of Biden outperforming first two years of Trump'Trump folks love to brag about the job numbers in the first two years of Trump's term. So far, the economy under Joe Biden is way, way, way ahead of those numbers,' Rachel Maddow says of President Biden's first 10 months in office.
Lire la suite »
Biden got his infrastructure win, but political rewards are less clearThe bipartisan infrastructure bill represented the fulfillment of a major campaign promise, but the immediate political gain President Biden might reap from it is uncertain.
Lire la suite »
Jill Biden pays tribute to one of America's most iconic first ladiesAs the season changed from summer to fall, first lady Jill Biden found a spot to sit outside at the White House to grade her students' essays. 'On these cool afternoons, I like to go to the Jackie Kennedy garden.'
Lire la suite »
Joe Biden passes the less contentious half of his legislative agendaAbout $550bn of America’s $1trn infrastructure bill constitutes new spending. The impact on growth is nothing to be sneezed at
Lire la suite »