2023-06-28 17:03:37
Biden is betting on his economic policy to support his campaign to stay in the White House
US President Joe Biden is betting on his economic performance to give impetus to his campaign to remain in the White House in next year’s elections, presenting to voters this week what his “Bidenomics” policy has achieved, according to Agence France-Presse.
After Biden inherited an economy exhausted by the consequences of the Covid epidemic, then severe inflation and faltering supply chains, he had difficulty winning the support of Americans.
And a poll conducted by “>” and the “Washington Post” newspaper, and its results were published in May, showed that Biden’s Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, whose term witnessed a number of scandals and who is likely to be his opponent in the race for the White House, leads by 18. percentage point on the question of who handled the economy better.
The White House believes that Biden can change the situation in his favor by focusing on his economic policy in a speech he will deliver on Wednesday in Chicago, in which he calls the phrase “Bidenomics,” as Assistant White House spokeswoman Olivia Dalton explained to reporters.
She said that this designation “is the word of the day, the word of the week, the word of the month, the word of the year here in the White House.”
The naming of “Bidenomics”, albeit in reverse, is mentioned as “Reaganomics” in reference to the controversial economic policy pursued by former Republican President Ronald Reagan in the eighties. It is facing criticism for giving preference to the wealthy and big corporations, believing that its prosperity will eventually be reflected in everyone.
And the White House reported that Biden intends to turn the page on “Reaganomics.”
Lyle Brainard, director of the National Economic Council, told reporters that the president “rejects vertical economics, the theory that tax cuts at the top will reverse down, that all we need is for government not to get in the way.”
On the contrary, Dalton said, Biden will focus on “the conviction that the economy grows when the middle class grows.”
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Biden asserts that the huge and extravagant government plans that he implemented during his first term so far will stimulate economic growth in the long run, leading to the revival of the manufacturing sector in the United States and the advancement of the less wealthy classes in the country.
This is not only an economic argument, but it may constitute a roadmap to winning the elections, which are expected to witness a fierce battle between Democrats and Republicans over a small number of swing states.
What reinforces Biden’s arguments in his approach to the electorate is the impressive list of legislative victories he achieved in the last two years.
The major laws passed by Congress have pumped a historic amount of money into green economy technology and the semiconductor sector, and no less than $550 billion has been allocated for a broad plan to restore infrastructure, including roads, bridges, and others in the country.
Brainard said that the theory of dripping wealth in a downward manner inherited from the Reagan era led to the collapse of American industrial cities due to companies moving their production centers and abandoning ambitious infrastructure development.
On the other hand, Biden’s industrial policy, according to Brainard, uses government funding as an incentive to bring regarding “a spending spree in the private sector to develop manufacturing activity.”
She drew attention to funding to expand broadband internet to every corner of the United States, a project reminiscent of the electrification program implemented by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s to develop the country.
However, the problem that Biden faces is that his economic achievements do not reflect political gains for voters.
Opinion polls show that Americans rarely give him credit for low unemployment and economic prosperity. If inflation has been in a slow but continuous decline for 11 months in a row, then it remains at the forefront of voters’ concerns.
Dalton said that Americans will look at the situation differently when the fruits of the programs implemented by Biden finally appear.
She added, “We see private investment coming back into the country, we see millions of jobs created. Now is the time, with all these achievements, for the president to carry this message to the American people and confirm that this is what Bidennomics policy achieves.
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