The ongoing Washington sausage-making spectacle is crucial to millions of day-to-day civilian lives.
’s hurt feelings. Whether social security checks arrive on time; whether a decrepit interstate highway bridge spanning the Ohio River is finally replaced; whether struggling parents can afford child care—all those life-changing events are chips in the messy federal-budget game being played by Senatorand their colleagues. Joe Biden.
Democrats were already facing steep odds for maintaining their slim majorities in the Senate and the House. Now the wrangling over the debt ceiling and multi-trillion-dollar bills to pay for hard and soft infrastructure upgrades threaten to crater Democratic midterm chances long before anyone votes in November 2022.knows this. That’s why the Republican Senate leader is dragging his feet on raising the debt ceiling, wagering that Biden will get the blame if the economy tanks.
Biden and his political team, to their credit, seemed to recognize this late last week. The president went to Capitol Hill, met with Jayapal and others, and effectively sided with liberal Democrats. At least for the moment: The longer negotiations drag, the more likely it becomes that Biden tells progressives he’s done everything possible and the lefties need to cave in order to salvage the infrastructure agenda and preserve any shot at heading off a midterm deluge.
If Biden somehow pulls off a budget compromise that satisfies, even grudgingly, both moderates and progressives, the political path could improve for next year. And then the Democrats might well find a midterm campaign model in California. The state’s governor,is hardly beloved. But in September he beat back a recall effort—decisively. Newsom’s campaign attracted independent as well as Democratic voters by playing offense on COVID vaccines.
Biden’s challenge at the moment is to keep Democrats from becoming disgusted with their own team’s budget maneuvers. Because there is sure to be plenty hateable about Republican candidates next year—including what they would likely do to the electoral system if restored to power. “If the bad guys take the House and the Senate, they’re going to impeach Biden within the first three months,” Clegg says. “Or if Biden orwins in 2024, they’re not going to certify the result.
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