The closest comparison, he said, was to the beginning of the Obama administration, in which Biden served as vice president, when the president signed a $787 billion economic stimulus package weeks after inauguration.īiden will have to deal with much slimmer majorities in each chamber than Obama did. “What other president has come in arguing for a $2 trillion stimulus right out of the gate?” asked Dan Mahaffee, senior vice president and director of policy at the Washington-based Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. Biden appears determined to push a major chunk of his agenda through Congress in the early going, experts say. Since President Franklin Roosevelt’s historic push to enact major portions of his Depression-era “New Deal” beginning in the early 1930s, all succeeding presidents have been measured by how much of their agenda they could pass during the first 100 days of their administrations. Capitol as Biden’s election victory was being certified. 13 on accusations that he incited a violent mob that stormed the U.S. It will also have to compete for lawmakers’ attention with a Senate trial of Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, who was impeached Jan. Biden Announces $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Package
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