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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThinking small: Biden scrounges for ways to break through
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) With his sweeping domestic agenda on hold and images of horror in Ukraine dominating headlines, President Joe Biden is scrounging for ways to demonstrate that hes still making progress for Americans at a time when many feel the country is heading in the wrong direction.
Six months out from the midterm elections, Bidens team is betting that smaller, discrete announcements can break through to voters better than talk of transformational plans that are so far only aspirational. And as the global focus is on Ukraine, the White House is eager for Americans to see Biden tackling the kitchen table issues important to them - none more so than the searing inflation exacerbated by the Russian invasion.
Last week, that meant aides positioned big rigs outside the White House so Biden could talk about efforts to get more truck drivers on the road. A day later, he welcomed back former President Barack Obama for the signing of an executive order updating the Affordable Care Act. And after that, he signed bipartisan legislation intended to safeguard the U.S. Postal Services financial future.
This week, hes notching his heaviest domestic travel in months. On Thursday, he is to visit Greensboro, North Carolina, to highlight his plans to boost domestic supply chains and high-tech workforces. It comes after a Tuesday stop in Iowa to announce that his administration was granting a waiver to allow more ethanol in gasoline year-round, a move that officials estimated would shave 10 cents per gallon off gasoline prices but at just 2,300 gas stations out of the nations more than 100,000.
Six months out from the midterm elections, Bidens team is betting that smaller, discrete announcements can break through to voters better than talk of transformational plans that are so far only aspirational. And as the global focus is on Ukraine, the White House is eager for Americans to see Biden tackling the kitchen table issues important to them - none more so than the searing inflation exacerbated by the Russian invasion.
Last week, that meant aides positioned big rigs outside the White House so Biden could talk about efforts to get more truck drivers on the road. A day later, he welcomed back former President Barack Obama for the signing of an executive order updating the Affordable Care Act. And after that, he signed bipartisan legislation intended to safeguard the U.S. Postal Services financial future.
This week, hes notching his heaviest domestic travel in months. On Thursday, he is to visit Greensboro, North Carolina, to highlight his plans to boost domestic supply chains and high-tech workforces. It comes after a Tuesday stop in Iowa to announce that his administration was granting a waiver to allow more ethanol in gasoline year-round, a move that officials estimated would shave 10 cents per gallon off gasoline prices but at just 2,300 gas stations out of the nations more than 100,000.
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Thinking small: Biden scrounges for ways to break through (Original Post)
brooklynite
Apr 2022
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At least the Biden administration is trying to do something. It would be nice if we heard more
JohnSJ
Apr 2022
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2naSalit
(86,752 posts)1. Who writes these terrible headlines?
And these negative pieces about the progress being made since the demolition team was ousted?
unrec.
JohnSJ
(92,358 posts)2. At least the Biden administration is trying to do something. It would be nice if we heard more
Senator Brian Schatz was a refreshing exception to this a week ago:
Budi
(15,325 posts)3. Scrounging???
President Joe Biden is scrounging for ways to demonstrate that hes still making progress for.
Who approved this headline?
Who approved this headline?
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,391 posts)4. An editor.
Budi
(15,325 posts)7. Its ignorant
bucolic_frolic
(43,256 posts)5. These challenges bracket the entire Obama to Biden era
It's as if the GOP has a hard-right tough as nails ideology and all the PR apparatus that entails ...
and we don't have the liberal equivalent. In my view anyway.
Budi
(15,325 posts)6. Ya know what...if I saw this headline on a news feed I sure as hell wouldn't give it media play
Its not what's in the article, its the ignorant headline.
mcar
(42,368 posts)8. what a ridiculous take
and people in my red county think AP is liberal.
XanaDUer2
(10,718 posts)9. Scrounging? Nt