Joe Biden was elected President of the United States a year ago
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The rating of President Joe Biden has been falling for several months in a row and he does not meet the first anniversary after his election in the best shape.
Joe Biden was elected President of the United States a year ago. Old Joe promised the Americans a new normality, and the international arena of America’s return. In fact, there were disagreements within the Democratic Party and chaos with the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. In short, expectations and reality did not quite coincide.
Internal problems
One of Biden’s main projects, which he promised before the elections, is a plan for large-scale support for education, social sphere and green energy – totaling $ 3.5 trillion – and investment in infrastructure for another $ 1 trillion.
It seemed that the president had everything to pass these bills – both the majority of the Democratic Party in Congress and the support of these plans from the population.
But the project became hostage to the struggle between the centrist and left wing of the Democratic Party. The centrists – primarily Senators Kirsten Cinema and Joe Manchin – refused to support what they saw as irresponsible spending of budget funds on social spending.
On Friday, November 5, the lower house of Congress approved a plan to invest $ 1.2 trillion in roads and other infrastructure, but the social support project was postponed until next month. At the insistence of the centrists, it was sent for verification to independent experts who would calculate its real cost for taxpayers.
The difficulties Biden faced was all the more unexpected as he promised to be the president who would bring about real change – and he cited his 36 years of experience in the Senate as a guarantee of this.
The infrastructure plan provides for the creation of a large number of jobs, significant investments in roads, bridges, railways, the Internet, etc. In terms of numbers, the budget is divided as follows: roads, bridges, large projects ($ 110 billion), passenger and freight railways ($ 66 billion), public transport ($ 39 billion), airports ($ 25 billion), port infrastructure ( $ 17 billion)), transport safety programs ($ 11 billion), electric vehicles ($ 7.5 billion), buses and ferries with zero emissions and low emissions ($ 7.5 billion), revitalization of the existing transport infrastructure ($ 1 billion), broadband Internet ( $ 65 billion), energy infrastructure ($ 73 billion), clean drinking water ($ 55 billion), removal of pollution from water and soil ($ 21 billion).
The rating is not so hot
Now only 43% of Americans are happy with their leader, according to the website. FiveThirtyEight… In January, immediately after his inauguration, his rating reached 55%.
The president’s rating is also damaged by problems that have little to do with his decisions. Americans are worried about inflation – and 60% of respondents blame it on the Biden administration. Voters are worried about expensive gasoline and a shortage of certain goods. These difficulties are also associated with global logistics and energy processes.
Meanwhile, a large influx of migrants has been recorded on the southern border of the United States – their detentions this year have reached a historic record.
All of this prompted Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to warn. that Biden is in danger of becoming another “incredibly shrinking president.”
This label, modified from the title of the science fiction film, is applied to leaders whose promises and reforms remain largely on paper.
International problems
The awkward US withdrawal from Afghanistan cost Biden a lot of international reproaches. Other international setbacks by the Biden administration, including the recent agreement with Britain and Australia on nuclear submarines, have also raised doubts about America’s return to global leadership. It replaced Australia’s previous contract with France to build submarines. It was terminated, and the official Paris considered such an outcome a “stab in the back”.
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