Passing ‘Build Back Better’ could doom Biden's presidency

In pushing to pass the spending bill, Biden and his fellow Democrats in Congress are doubling down on a strategy of ignoring voter problems in favor of irrelevant party priorities https://t.co/DN1AFKn7sH

— reason (@reason) November 30, 2021

Reason’s Peter Suderman writes, “One of the strangest ticks of left-leaning punditry over the last year has been the contention that if Democrats in Congress didn't join together to pass some sort of climate and social spending bill—the various multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation packages that have gone under the label Build Back Better—then President Joe Biden would have presided over a failed presidency. The idea was that without this legislative package, Biden would have no accomplishments, no legacy, and nothing to show for his years in office with congressional majorities. Without the spending bill, Biden and the Democratic Party were doomed.

On the contrary, the evidence suggests that Biden is already presiding over a failed presidency—and passing the spending bill could further cement that failure.”

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