One year on, President Biden's pursuit of 'bold' change runs headlong into harsh realities.
polling average, as he faces a wave of challenges, from rising inflation and disruptions created by the omicron variant of the coronavirus to Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Biden and top Democrats portrayed a rules change as necessary to combat state voting limits inspired by Trump's conspiracy theories and to prevent election subversion. But Sinema and Manchin joined all 50 Republicans to block the rule change, although they said they support the two bills. Preservation of the 60-vote rule in the 50-50 Senate is likely to stymie Democrats' goals on all but a few issues with broad bipartisan support, like infrastructure.
LaBolt said Biden has a chance to build on his achievements so far — the Covid relief package, the infrastructure law and historically high job creation — with a narrower Build Back Better bill, a U.S.-China competition package and executive actions.
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