President Biden’s Agenda Flailing

As all the bluster from President Biden’s first 100 days has receded into the background, so too are the vast declarations of him becoming a transformational president akin to FDR. The reality is that with his agenda flailing, he is looking like a placeholder president. And even he seems to recognize it.

“I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’” Biden said this week. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.” Putting aside the fact that this was a lie — Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have voted 100 percent of the time with Biden — it is revealing that he is already on the defensive about his lack of progress.

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Philip Klein

Philip Klein is the editor of National Review Online.

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As all the bluster from President Biden’s first 100 days has receded into the background, so too are the vast declarations of him becoming a transformational president akin to FDR. The reality is that with his agenda flailing, he is looking like a placeholder president. And even he seems to recognize it.

“I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’” Biden said this week. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.” Putting aside the fact that this was a lie — Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have voted 100 percent of the time with Biden — it is revealing that he is already on the defensive about his lack of progress.