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Biden is threatened with big failure: How a party friend lets the US president run into the knife

2021-12-26T12:14:29.436Z


Biden is threatened with big failure: How a party friend lets the US president run into the knife Created: 12/26/2021, 12:57 PM From: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld After long negotiations, Manchin says no to the social and climate package - and thus plunges Biden and the common party into real problems. © J. Scott Applewhite / dpa A bitter blow for Joe Biden: His party colleague Joe Manchin betrayed


Biden is threatened with big failure: How a party friend lets the US president run into the knife

Created: 12/26/2021, 12:57 PM

From: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld

After long negotiations, Manchin says no to the social and climate package - and thus plunges Biden and the common party into real problems.

© J. Scott Applewhite / dpa

A bitter blow for Joe Biden: His party colleague Joe Manchin betrayed him publicly on a TV show - and that on Trump's favorite channel Fox News.

Washington, DC - The US Congress is in a stalemate - so all Democratic MPs are essential to Joe Biden. But not every party friend can also be called a "friend". Joe Manchin, a West Virginia senator, isn't one for Biden. The conservative democrat likes to step out of line * - and thus torpedo Biden's agenda. This is precisely why the 74-year-old is generally considered to be the most powerful Senator of the Democrats. How powerful, he recently demonstrated again. By throwing Joe Biden into a crisis.

The support of the Senators is particularly important for Biden with the large social package “Build Back Better”, the heart of the Biden plans. The reform package is $ 1.75 trillion strong - one of the largest investments in the welfare system in US history. Franklin D. Roosevelt's multi-billion dollar "New Deal," a series of economic and social reforms with which Roosevelt responded to the Great Depression from 1933 onwards, is often used as a point of comparison. Biden, who likes to present himself as the new “FDR” - so Roosevelt's initials - obviously wants to emulate this with his planned investments in social and climate change.

But Manchin said no to that.

The veto exploded like a bomb in political Washington.

It is a disaster for the Democratic Party.

And yet not surprising.

Biden has been working on the senator of the conservative state of West Virginia for months - but at no point had he clearly endorsed the project.

Now he was creating facts.

Failed US President?

How a party colleague lets Biden run into the knife

Joe Manchin announced the bad news for his party on Fox News of all things, known to most as the favorite channel of former US President Donald Trump *.

With three sentences Manchin destroyed the hope of many Democrats in the show by presenter Bret Baier.

Also explosive: only shortly beforehand Manchin had apparently informed the White House about his project through an intermediary.

As

Politico

reported, senior officials then tried to reach him by phone before the show.

Vain.

"We tried to stop him," said an adviser, but the senator "refused to take a call from White House staff."

The Senator is using it to cut Joe Biden's chair.

If the reform fails, its presidency could also fail.

“I've tried everything humanly possible.

I can not do it.

This is a no, "said Manchin on the show.

Shortly thereafter, his office published a letter that also dispelled any remaining democratic hope that it might be a bad joke.

"My Democratic colleagues in Washington are determined to reshape our society in a way that makes our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face," it reads.

USA: Shock over Manchin veto on reform package - Biden's White House reacts angrily

The White House responded immediately. "Senator Manchin's comments this morning at FOX contradict his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff and his own public statements," said Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki.

She also struck emotional tones: "In the meantime, Senator Manchin has to explain to the families who pay $ 1,000 a month for insulin why they still have to pay it instead of $ 35 for this vital drug." almost two million women also have to explain why there will continue to be no affordable childcare, added Psaki.

"Perhaps Senator Manchin can explain to the millions of children who have been lifted out of poverty through the child tax credit, among other things, why he wants to end a program that will help reach this milestone - we cannot." But the door for she left a compromise open.

The

Washington Post

According to Psaki, “They are long-time friends.

That hasn't changed. "

Nonetheless: It is clear words from the Oval Office that vent the US President and his team's frustration.

If the legislative package fails, Joe Manchin bears full responsibility for it, one reads between the lines.

And other Democrats also made their frustration clear.

Left MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Manchin


of "treason against working families across the country," the

Washington Post reported

, "an egregious breach of confidence in the president."

Joe Biden: Manchin's No plunges US presidents into a crisis - right before congressional elections

"I still think there is a way to get Build Back Better ready," Biden * recently told reporters, according to CNN. Another compromise seems to be the last hope. But it is also a fact that party colleagues Joe Manchin had already met in the previous months step by step, billions for billions - so Biden cut the size of the package by half, from originally 3.5 trillion to 1.75 Trillion dollars. Apparently not enough to overcome the conservative senator's skepticism. But as

Politico

first reported, the two men are said to have spoken to each other in the meantime and signaled their readiness for a new agreement in the coming year.

But time is of the essence for Biden.

The congressional elections are already due in November 2022 - in which the voters traditionally punish the incumbent party.

It can be assumed that the Democratic Party will lose its majority in the US Congress.

This would close the window for reforms - and Biden would become a “lame duck”, a president with no options for action.

US elections 2024: Biden and Harris are in a crisis - the Republican Party can benefit

Even worse threatens Biden in the US elections in 2024. Should he fail to keep his campaign promises, be it in terms of climate protection, reform of the welfare state or the attacks on the right to vote by the Republicans, then he should be a failed president in the History goes down - and a renewed candidacy is a long way off. Not to mention the fact that Biden would be 83 years old at the time. According to

the data news

site FiveThiryEight

, his approval rating is currently less than 50 percent.

But his possible heir, Vice President Kamala Harris *, is also currently in a deep crisis.

The issues of migration and electoral law reform assigned to her weigh heavily on the shoulders of the former hope.

And there is also a lot of rumbling within your team.

Harris' spokeswoman Symone Sanders will be leaving shortly - after less than a year.

In political Washington it is rumored that the mood is bad - also between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - this is what media reports from

Politico

and CNN suggest.

In such an initial situation, it would be an open question who from the Democratic Party could throw his hat into the ring.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party in particular has benefited from the trench warfare.

(aka) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

With the help of several Republicans, Joe Biden was able to bring another core project * through the US Congress.

They're paying a high price now.

Source: merkur

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