Biden is piling up losses once again
Zachary Faria
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President Joe Biden is supposedly planning on running for reelection. Yet, with the 2024 presidential election looming, Biden is losing his grip on the party and piling up losses left and right.
Congress is poised to reject a law passed by the Council of the District of Columbia that would remove or reduce penalties for several violent crimes, the first time Congress would overrule the city in 30 years. Biden had expressed opposition to the GOP-led push to overturn the law, and yet 31 House Democrats joined Republicans in the effort. Now, several Senate Democrats are hopping on board, and Biden has already backed down from any veto threat.
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Biden is facing other challenges from his own party, though. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is joining Republicans to try and undo a Biden administration rule that “allows retirement plans to consider environmental, social, and corporate governance.” Biden has already promised a veto. More notably, 59 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass a bill that would require the administration to issue inflation estimates on “major” executive orders.
Meanwhile, Biden is facing a likely (though not yet certain) loss in the Supreme Court with his student debt amnesty plan. The Biden administration admits that it has no backup plan to fulfill this grand campaign promise. If the Supreme Court does its job correctly, it will leave Biden with yet another loss after he bypassed Congress to try and fulfill an unachievable promise.
That would leave Biden with only two grand wins to run on in 2024. The first is the bipartisan infrastructure bill that he signed into law and leaned on heavily ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. That is now overshadowed by him and his abysmal transportation secretary ignoring an ecological disaster in Ohio. The other is the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which was a climate bill disguised as an inflation bill that actually made inflation worse.
Will he get more wins now with a split Congress? Most likely not. Biden is again calling for an “assault weapons” ban that will never pass. He has been left to butt heads with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of the most unserious members of the GOP caucus, to try and make himself look good.
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On top of all this, Biden is sitting at an approval rating of around 43%. He never recovered from botching the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in 13 dead U.S. service members and several Americans stranded to the whims of the Taliban. The border crisis has spiraled out of control, with the Biden administration unwittingly ushering MS-13 gang members across the country.
Biden is getting older and staying unpopular. His presidency has been nothing but blunder after blunder, and even a narrowly divided Congress is forcing him to either veto legislation or to surrender. Democrats are itching for an opportunity to dump him as the 2024 nominee, and Biden is presenting them with justifications day after day.