Few presidents in recent times have faced such a staggering catalogue of crises as they prepare for a White House press conference. The White House called the press conference to highlight wins in Biden’s first term – including a quickly scaled-up vaccine drive to combat Covid-19, a rare bipartisan law that will spend $1 trillion on repairing infrastructure, large cuts in child poverty and Biden’s relaunch of traditional American leadership on the world stage following Trump’s tantrums at summits, genuflecting to tyrants and trashing of alliances.īut Biden’s victory lap will be short. Truman’s mantra that “the buck stops here.” Most likely, Wednesday’s televised session with journalists will serve to stress the impossibility of the task before Biden and underscore the cruel, lonely reality behind President Harry S. Or if it isn’t, to at least demonstrate a strategy to slowly turn things around that voters can trust. In such an atmosphere, the President is under pressure to do more than advance a political program that is now almost certain to fall well short of his ambitious goals.Įxtreme times call for presidents to restate a sense of common national mission, to assess simultaneous crises with clarity and to inject a sense of hope that some sense of normality may be on the horizon. Joe Biden enters the second year of his presidency looking for a reset after a tumultuous first 12 months Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times/Redux President Joe Biden after delivering remarks on the November jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House in Decembere 2021.
And Biden’s interpretation of tiny Democratic mandates in Congress might have delighted liberals but it has prompted some who saw him as a moderate to wonder whether they misjudged him.
But in his first year in office, political bitterness has deepened, partly because of ex-President Donald Trump’s corrosive and dangerous campaign to destroy American democracy. Two big blocks of Americans believe everything that they think their nation stands for could be ripped away.īiden was elected to slake the poison, bridge divides and solve problems. The country has not been as ideologically estranged for generations. But the President will arrive in the East Room at a moment of national exhaustion and drained morale as the coronavirus pandemic heads into a third year, amid a sense that events at home and abroad are cascading out of control and that vicious ideological divides could tear America apart. If President Joe Biden’s only task in his solo press conference on Wednesday was restoring his battered political standing, it would be daunting enough.
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