For the first time in a while, President Biden had a week to truly feel good about. Now, he and his team just need to make it stick.
Against the backdrop of rising consumer costs, an equally steady drip in approval ratings, and a growing number of House Democratic retirements, the past week was a small glimpse of what a presidency on track could resemble.
Mike Donilon, the longtime senior adviser to the president, described the past week as “pivotal.” The signing ceremony of the bipartisan infrastructure bill — directing $550 billion in new funding to the country’s ailing infrastructure — beat back “skepticism that you could do something big with a bipartisan bill” he said. And he described the passage of the social policy bill through the House as a “giant step forward.
There were countless hours of Zoom meetings, phone calls, treks to the Hill and Oval Office meetings. The early outreach by Louisa Terrell, the head of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, and National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, beginning months ago, was key to brokering an agreement with moderate House members that cleared the way for House passage of the social spending bill.
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