Democrats are now fighting over how Biden's agenda imploded
Jazz Shaw Apr 18, 2022 11:01 AM ET
We recently looked at a few articles from the Associated Press that took an uncharacteristically critical view of some of the Biden administration’s recent misadventures. I wondered at the time if the mainstream media was beginning to reach the point of refusing to provide cover for Biden and the Democrats as they typically did for most of his first year in office. This week another possible example of what might be turning into a trend showed up and it came from NBC News. Looking back on the collapse of the Build Back Better Act (and basically most of Biden’s agenda with it), Sahil Kapur notes that Democrats are now fighting over who is to blame for the abject failure of the bill, and the picture is not a pretty one.
Maybe the Build Back Better Act was destined to fail. Maybe the White House and Democratic leaders misplayed what could have been a winning hand, albeit one with no margin for error, and jeopardized the centerpiece of their agenda.
Or perhaps rank-and-file Democrats, coupled with unanimous Republican opposition, gummed up the deal-making process in a way that Joe Biden the candidate said he was uniquely suited to surmount, but in practice as president could not.
NBC News spoke to more than a dozen people involved with the legislation, and conflicting theories emerged about who is responsible for President Joe Biden’s lost legislative agenda.
NBC is daring to remind everyone of how Joe Biden ran for office on a claim that he was the person who could restore bipartisanship to Washington and get things done. You may recall how many times the talking heads on cable news outlets assured us that “the adults were back in charge” shortly after Biden was sworn in. But it certainly hasn’t looked that way lately.
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