How do you rate Biden's chances of passing any major legislation through Congress?
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January 29th, 2021
This question is skating fairly close to controversy-land that I have promised to avoid. However, it is not intended to stoke any major controversy or any comparisons with the previous administration.
We know that passing actual legislation through Congress is hard. I think that is what the Founders intended. Hundreds of individuals, each with different opinions, have to agree on a compromise. Even if a majority of the individuals belong to one Party, there are different opinions about the details.
After watching the Biden administration rule by Executive Orders, even The NY Times (at least an op-ed in The NY Times) is starting to wonder. Major areas in which Congress buy-in may be required are:
1. Taxes.
2. Infrastructure.
3. Oil and Gas subsidies.
4. Alternative fuel subsidies.
Do you think Biden will be able to pass any major legislation? If so, what is a reasonable time frame? If not, how far do you think he can get with just Executive Orders?
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@crazyguy: “How do you rate Biden’s chances of passing any major legislation through Congress?”
0.000%
Biden, like Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc is a patriot and won’t propose any major legislation, so there is 0.000% chance of anything “major” passing. Remember, he promised our most important citizens that nothing would fundamentally change if he were elected.
Don’t worry. Our money is in good hands!
Major? Wedge issues will be difficult, close to impossible, but there will be agreement on plenty of things that the public is barely aware of.
The major issues I hope to see some movement and think they have some hope are Medicare gets moved back to age 60 and some sort of significant immigration reform where people can get work visas easier so they are not so exploited and so they don’t have to worry about crossing the border.
One thing is rather certain concerning this question. Biden will get just as far reversing the regressive policies of the catastrophic President preceding him, as that oddball did in destroying our country’s standing as a rational nation with sensible leadership. The entire world has already heaved one rather loud sigh of relief now that we can normalize relations with NATO, rejoin the climate accords, resume and tighten sanctions on the rogues gallery of Russian governmental gangsters and exert some semblance of national sanity toward defeating the epidemic. The fractious resistance of Trump loyalists is already becoming a serious liability as the Trump cult grows ever more discredited from its fountainhead’s psychotic antics. Let them continue down the road of self destruction. They will reap the reward they deserve.
Not to be snippy about this, but Biden is not responsible for legislation. That is the job of Congress plus Kamala Harris’s single vote in the Senate . Biden will probably continue to issue executive orders, though not to the extent that Trump. Biden has already reversed some of Trump’s worst ones.
Slightly better than 50–50.
Thanks all for keeping your answers civilized (for the most part). If we are ever going to be a useful contributor to the dialog, we have to learn to disagree without being disagreeable.
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