It’s important for a president to get their agenda passed the first year. Because when the second year rolls around it’s midterm season and folks in Congress are more focused on maintaining their seats. So they are risk adverse. Dems are gonna lose the House so this means the rest of his first term is a lame duck one. So the best thing is to pass your agenda as quickly as possible. Hence the first 100 days. Now it’s not all of his fault because I place more blame on Manchin and Sinema for sabotaging his agenda. He wanted these things to pass but he couldn’t convince both of them to pass the BBB. In my opinion he should have called them out and dared them to vote down the bills and put the political heat on them.
Point to the last president who accomplished their agenda in the first year?
We learned from the Obama administration that Biden needed to capitalize in the first two years because interim elections could completely ice the agenda by putting the opposition party in place to block everything (at least barring a willpower to use executive privilege that Biden simply hasn't shown so far). I feel like this concept even existed prior to that though, maybe I'm old fashioned but I remember media making a big deal out of the first hundred days and everyone always harking back to FDR's success as the example. But either way, we literally saw this last time Dems had the numbers to pass ish. They didn't act with urgency, lost a massive amount of down-ballot races in the interim, and then lost the next presidential election.
It doesn't matter. Trump was extremely popular within his constituency and still lost the house and senate.
American Federal politics isn't designed for swift change or sustained movements
But yes, you must be very old fashioned, because what you're saying hasn't been the case in my child or adult life going back to Bush 1.
At this point in the previous administration he'd only accomplished tax cuts.
Obamacare didn't pass until 2010
Atthis point Biden has passed Covid relief and the infrastructure deal.
He has another year and a month before he'd lose control of the house or senate.
I'm a staunch believer that if the bills are beneficial and long term it won't matter if they get done.
if this was france in 1800, she'd be burned at the stake
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