The White House boasted about President Joe Biden‘s legislative agenda but had scant details on how he, his aides, and his allies plan to sell his accomplishments to the public as he prepares to leave Washington, D.C., for a vacation in South Carolina.
“What we have seen this past week, and I would argue the past 18 months, has been a president who has legislative success, more legislative success than any modern president,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday.
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Jean-Pierre cited the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act, the $550 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the $280 billion Chips and Science Act, as well as the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act, the climate and healthcare spending bill the Senate passed last weekend.
“If you look specifically at the Inflation Reduction Act and those components that are incredibly popular, when you think about how the American people feel about lowering costs, energy costs, lowering premiums, healthcare premiums, these are things — and especially Medicare to be able to negotiate — these are things that Democrats have been fighting for 34 years,” she said. “What we have seen this week is a win, is a win for the American public.”
Medicare itself passed as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s sweeping Great Society legislative agenda during the 1960s, which expanded and developed the federal welfare state.
Jean-Pierre also alluded to more presidential appearances, as well as how Vice President Kamala Harris, Cabinet secretaries, and members of Congress are “certainly going to be out there talking to the American people” in the “upcoming weeks” before November’s midterm elections.
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Biden is scheduled to leave for Kiawah Island, South Carolina, on Wednesday, while the House is due to return to Washington, D.C., on Friday so lawmakers can consider the climate and healthcare bill.
