“Next week not only my presidency will be played, but also the majority in Congress and the legacy of Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt”: Joe Biden doesn’t mince words to shake the Democrats in Congress and get them to support his new plan worth 1,750 billion dollars which also includes what it defines as “historic investments” in the fight against climate change, amounting to over 550 billion. A business card not just before flying to Rome for the G20 summit and then landing in Glasgow for the UN climate conference (COP 26).
The announcement of the new package of measures comes at the last minute, just a few minutes before departure. A departure postponed precisely to try to reach an agreement until the end and not to appear in front of world leaders empty-handed. “Heaven can wait”, ironically titled someone referring to Biden’s first Roman appointment, the one in the Vatican with Pope Francis. But when Air Force One takes off from Andrew’s base, the fate of the last minute plan devised by the White House and financed by a tax hike on large corporations and the wealthiest still hangs in the balance.
With the two centrist Democratic senators – Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin – who speak of steps forward but do not dissolve reservations, refusing to say whether or not they will vote on the text. And their grades are critical for approval.
A position that not only keeps Biden on his toes, with the risk of definitively wrecking his economic agenda, compromising the path towards the mid-term and presidential elections. But that further raises the tension among the Democrats, with the liberal wing that poorly digest a plan defined as “historic” by the president but in fact halved compared to the first very ambitious draft, with most of the social measures originally envisaged cut out.
Biden thus plays all cards to try to unblock the situation: “The agenda contained in this plan is what 81 million Americans voted for, and their voices must be heard, they cannot be ignored”, the extreme appeal while he speaks to the country on live TV, before taking off towards the Old Continent. “Of course, this plan is not all that each of us wanted, but it will still create millions of jobs and reduce the deficit. This is not about right or left – he insisted – but about restoring the competitiveness of our country so that may return to lead the world. We cannot allow the world to advance us. “
Meanwhile, a new tile on Biden also arrives on the recovery front, with the American economy slowing down by growing in the second quarter of the year by only 2%, less than expected and definitely below the previous three months. This too is a fact that risks undermining Washington’s credibility on the international stage, with the Biden administration’s efforts in keeping the pandemic at bay and restarting the supply chain that does not seem to lead to the desired results for now.
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