President JoeBiden is working to reverse the narrative on what his Republican rivals see as a major weakness: the economy. Biden has spent his first two years in office presiding over stubbornly high inflation.
The president spent his first two years in office presiding over stubbornly high inflation that Republicans blamed squarely on Democrats' pandemic-era spending.
Instead of the"trickle-down" economics of Republicans, the White House has begun to say, Biden is building an economy from the"middle out and the bottom up" with investments in infrastructure and clean energy projects signed into law when Democrats had unified control of Washington. Biden, like former President Donald Trump, has emphasized manufacturing jobs while in office. But he also signed into law the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that is now resulting in new infrastructure projects across the country, including a $42 billion investment in rural broadband Biden promoted to start the week.
"The public cares most about economic issues," David Madland, an economist at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said. He believes the issue will eventually be a winner for the president. But the Biden White House has its work cut out for it with his approval rating on the economy underwater.
GOP presidential candidates are ready to make that case as well. Trump frequently touts the healthy economy that marked the first three years of his presidency, while Gov. Ron DeSantis has the added talking point of bucking lockdowns, something that aided Florida's economy in 2020 and 2021.
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