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Despite his own Democratic Party controlling all branches of government, President Biden is heading into his second year in office without making any significant progress on his key campaign initiatives, including voting rights, climate change, the economy, police and immigration reform and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden is experiencing his lowest approval numbers yet as his agenda remains largely stalled in Congress, largely due to his inability to unify his party, which is striking fear in Democrats as they cling to razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate ahead of the November midterm elections.
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Biden promised to protect voting rights during his campaign, but his federal voting rights legislation, which would water down voter ID requirements that individual states have passed, failed in the Senate on Wednesday night due to moderate Democrats who are averse to abolishing the filibuster precedent.
Moderate Democrats also got in the way of Biden passing his Build Back Better Act, which contains $555 billion in proposed climate action. The landmark bill named after his 2020 campaign slogan is all but dead after Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., refused – after months of negotiations and party infighting – to support certain provisions in the bill and its roughly $2 trillion price tag.
President Biden speaks about the hostage incident at a synagogue in Texas as he arrives with first lady Jill Biden to pack food boxes while volunteering in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service at Philabundance, a hunger relief organization, in Philadelphia Jan. 16, 2022.
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The White House has championed the passing of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, which sent $1,400 checks to most Americans, and the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law as major legislative achievements for Biden, but an…
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