WASHINGTON, Sept 16 — Joe Biden will promote his mammoth middle class spending plan in a White House speech today, with trillions of dollars in Congress and perhaps the fate of his presidency itself in play.
Nicknamed by allies “Middle Class Joe,” Biden has made the bid to spend US$3.5 trillion on education, child care and climate crisis issues the centrepiece of his domestic agenda. A big domestic win would also help resuscitate his own presidency, which after a strong start looks increasingly bogged down by the Afghanistan fallout, a complicated economic recovery after Covid shutdowns, and a resurgence of the pandemic thanks to the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
“Are we going to continue with an economy that benefits the wealthy and big corporations or are we going to set the country on a path that benefits working people?” The key Senate votes are Democratic moderates Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who have cold feet about the higher price.
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