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The president of the United States, Joe Biden, completed his first year in office in the White House, along with his vice president Kamala Harris, however, they have encountered some problems that are generally Americans are not used to it.
Firstly, the weariness due to the variants of coronavirus and secondly due to the unprecedented inflation that plagues the country as consequence of the pandemic.
At the national level, Biden faces resistance within the Democratic Party, to carry out his star project. The US president received several blows last week, which increased the feeling of having his government under siege.
Among them, the projectile of two low-profile Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona, at Biden’s impulse to voting rights in the United States, which constitutes a great challenge to his authority. Turning into law the projects related to electoral rights and rule changes to approve them would be impossible if Manchin and Sinema do not agree with their own formation.
Democrats are doing their best to counter a wave of bills to suppress voter turnout in states controlled by Republicans, which are based on the fraud claim disclosed by former President Donald Trump after the presidential elections of 2021.
Although Manchin and Sinema support the measures that the US executive wants to establish, they oppose changing the rules of the Senate, which dictate that most major laws must be approved by at least 60 votes in favor, to enact two bills that would facilitate participation and make it difficult for local officials to intervene in the results of the elections.
This implies that there is a kind of legislative gridlock in the US Senate, which seems not to be resolved and this should be, in part, to the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives. Not only with the project on the right to vote, but also with the Build Back Better project, a bet made by Biden that he intends to expand the social safety net in the country and fight against climate change.
Likewise, Biden, who set out to solve the problems of the United States, also faces obstacles due to the erosion of his political capital, which has been affected by his repeated visits to the Capitol to ask the Democrats to support his agenda, as well as by a series of missed deadlines to pass other bills.
The Supreme Court’s blockade of the immunization requirements and diagnostic tests for covid-19 for large companies , which would be a key piece in the fight against the pandemic that adds pressure on Biden.
Elections in 2022
Lo mentioned above deepens as the mid-term elections approach, a difficult experience for presidents. The Republican party and the conservative media machinery that seek to cloud their way through the White House, promoted by Trump, amplify the obstacles and missteps of the current administration.
In this sense, there is the possibility that the Democrats lose their majority in the Senate, a defeat that would isolate Biden in the White House and that would lead to not being able to approve his key projects while the re-election campaign approaches. .
In this case, Biden will seek a way to reverse his defeats with some of his successes such as the infrastructure law, the relief package for the covid-19 that helped reduce child poverty, the low unemployment rate and the effort of the US executive to repair alliances and eliminate the culture of lies from the White House after the Trump presidency.
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