“The biggest challenge for Biden is to convince the American people that the United States is on the right track,” one analyst said. Inflation, COVID, geopolitical risk and fractured American politics all contribute to gloom among Americans, he said.
Persistent inflation, a tough midterm-election outlook for Democrats and an ongoing grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic are shaping up to be some of President Joe Biden’s biggest challenges as he prepares to enter the second year of his presidency.
Polls compiled by RealClearPolitics underscore the heavy lift Biden will face, with those saying they believe the U.S. is on the “wrong track” overwhelmingly outnumbering respondents who say the U.S. is going in the right direction. Biden’s and Democrats’ response? Doubling down on their agenda, namely the still-under-debate Build Back Better social-policy and climate plan.
Also read: Biden redoubles Build Back Better push as Republicans say inflation rate demonstrates Democrats’ ‘incompetence’ Yet even as Biden and lawmakers tout what they say will be the inflation-fighting aspects of their agenda, others argue it’s already too late to help the president’s party next November.
Biden is looking past Friday’s dismal inflation report, saying that inflation is at “the peak of the crisis.” And his aides, like White House press secretary Jen Psaki, are emphasizing that prices for some items — such as gasoline RBF22 — have fallen since the November CPI data were collected. Pivoting to the president’s Build Back Better plan, Psaki said the legislation would “start cutting costs early next year,” including for child care.
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