Comments on Biden, his first years as president.
What has happened? What will happen?
Jobs: In Bidens fist year there has been created 6 million jobs.
Unemployment Rate: Dropped from 6.2% to 3.9%
Unemployment Claims: When Biden took office over 18 million were reciving
unemployment benefits, today only 2 million are.
Expanded Access to Health Care: 5 million Americans have newly gained health insurance
coverage.
Judges That Reflect Our Nation: More Black women appointed to the U.S. Court of
Appeals than any president – even over 8 years – in history.
Cabinet: First majority non-white Cabinet in history, with most women in the Cabinet,
including first woman Treasury Secretary, first LGBTQ+ and Native American Cabinet
officials, and first woman Director of National Intelligence.
Personnel: Most diverse Administration in history – most women, people of color, disability,
LGBTQ+, first generation American, and first-generation college graduates.
(The White House, 2022)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/01/19/fast-facts-recordfirsts-in-president-bidens-first-year/
For all that, however, the president ends his first year undeniably weaker than he began it,
with his poll numbers having plummeted and his party in danger of being swept out of power
on Capitol Hill. His team insists they aren’t thrown by their turn of fortune and that history
will be on their side.
“It does not surprise me that despite progress on Covid, despite progress on the economy,
voters are not going to give us a passing grade yet,” White House chief of staff Ron Klain
said in an interview. “But President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year
term.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/joe-biden-first-year-two-presidencies-527352
Covid:
- he successfully steered a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill to passage, surging funds to
American families, schools and businesses battered by the pandemic.
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A party-line vote turned the Covid relief bill into law. And Biden managed to secure
an elusive bipartisan win with the passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure package this
fall that is poised to be a godsend to the nation’s decaying roads, bridges and water
pipes.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/joe-biden-first-year-two-presidencies527352
Why has Biden´s «popularity» decreased?
- Then the world watched in horror as the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan
was filled with images of tumult and violence.
- https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/joe-biden-first-year-two-presidencies527352
- It has been a bad three-month turn for the president. On July 26, about 53 percent of
adults approved of his performance, compared with 43 percent who
disapproved, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls. By Aug. 26, for the first
time in Biden’s presidency, disapproval reached the same level as approval: 47
percent. By Oct. 26, just before the off-year election, Biden had fallen even further —
43 percent approval vs. 51 percent disapproval. That’s about where he remains now.
(August was the time of the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan)
- The Clinton, Obama, Trump and now Biden administrations have followed the same
pattern: The new president enters office with majorities of his own party in both
houses of Congress; his agenda gets bogged down because of infighting within his
own party and universal opposition from the other one; and the president’s poll
numbers decline. What’s often overlooked is that the media casts those presidents as
ineffective, which I think partly explains their polling declines.
(Bacon Jr., 2021) P. Bacon Jr. November 15, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/15/why-bidens-popularity-hasdropped-how-he-could-bounce-back/