Biden team struggling to adapt to GOP power on Capitol Hill
“They slipped into the easy familiarity of [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi solving all their problems for them over the last two years, so legislative affairs consisted of trudging up to the Hill and hearing what the former speaker had to say and adapting their perspective to her guidance,” he said. “Now they need to act independently, and they are subsuming a lot of their policy calls into the political agenda.
Russ Vought, who served as director of the OMB in the Trump administration, said the bungle exposed a rift inside theOMB also stumbled in January when it issued its first policy statement on a House Republican bill to revoke tens of billions of additional dollars for the IRS. The statement went beyond the usual policy analysis by mocking Republicans as sycophants who wanted to enable the wealthy to “skip out on their taxes.
The Biden OMB has issued three policy statements this year opposing House Republican bills but not directly threatening a veto. The resolution on the D.C. crime legislation was one of those. It was tied with another piece of legislation that would overturn the District’s new ordinance allowing noncitizens to cast ballots in city elections.is betting that voters don’t care about the messy operations and frayed relationships with Capitol Hill and will reward the president for taking a tough approach to crime.
When a reporter said most Americans are unfamiliar with the ins and outs of statements of administration policy, Ms. Jean-Pierre laughed and nodded. “I’m pretty sure they’re not,” she said.
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