The US Congress will vote to approve Joe Biden’s investment plans

The result is close: After months of intense negotiations and internal wrangling among Democrats, the House of Representatives will finally, Friday, November 5, vote on major investment plans for Joe Biden, which he hopes to see approved to relaunch his presidency, put to the test.

The House of Representatives will meet to vote on these two giant programs for the supposed president “Rebuilding” America, Democratic officials said Thursday night. Project “Historical” And “Transformation Bearer”White House spokeswoman Karen-Jean-Pierre had said earlier.

Under pressure after a scathing defeat in a local election, congressional Democrats on Thursday struggled to reach an agreement, and Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised: We will adopt these two plans. “ Because time was running out. Struggles between Joe Biden’s left wing and more moderate elected officials have been stealing from the president a much-needed political victory to breathe new life into his presidency.

two pharaonic projects

“It’s urgent”Karen Jean-Pierre has strongly emphasized. The president’s spending programs are popular among Americans, according to polls, and a Moody’s study Thursday estimated the number of jobs the plans could create in ten years at 1.5 million. But Joe Biden, who, during the presidential campaign, praised his negotiating skills for his long career as a senator, faced the divisions of his party and saw, helpless, his popularity decline.

Before leaving for the G20 and COP26 summits, the president had already visited Capitol Hill twice to speed the passage of his two flagship projects. First, a plan to restore the country’s dilapidated roads, bridges and transportation. The envelope of $1,200 billion (1,038 billion euros) – the equivalent of Spain’s GDP – is backed by Democrats and some Republicans. Another social and climate giant, called “Building Back Better,” is notably planning to cut childcare costs and invest $550 billion to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse by 2030.

But the efforts of the President of the United States failed. Returning from Europe, Joe Biden, seemingly impatient, urged his forces to organize. ‘The Democrats are never close to finalizing and adopting it’ These plans, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has responded Thursday. But their fate is in fact in the hands of an elected official who currently refuses to support them, the Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin.

Midterm elections in an ambush

Given the weak Democratic majority in the Senate, this elected official has veto power over these projects. Thursday morning again expressed concern about its impact on US public debt and inflation. In his state, one of the poorest in the United States, “People are terrified of rising prices for petrol, food and public services.”It was confirmed on CNN.

One way to denounce expenditures that his party deemed exaggerated, accused of not knowing how to measure the country’s pulse, on Tuesday lost control of Virginia, the state that voted mostly for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

The observation was more somber because this election was a rehearsal before the next political battles: The entire country would be called to the polls for the midterm legislative elections in November 2022. Joe Biden’s party could lose control of the party. The two chambers, which would further complicate the passage of any large-scale reform.