The President of the United States returned at a press conference on his first year of office, “a year of challenges” but also “progress”.
One year “challenges” but also “progress”: this is how Joe Biden described his first year of mandate Wednesday 19 January. He attempted to minimize the crisis crosses by his presidency, with the frustration of Americans to the pandemic while giving rise to his economic balance sheet. “I know there is a lot of frustration and fatigue in this country,” said the president since the prestigious “East Room” of the White House during a rare and awaited press conference, at the day before the first anniversary of its function. 79-year-old Democrat needs to find new impetus. In the space of two months, it had to bury two emblematic promises, namely renovating the welfare state and protecting the vote of minorities by a great law, for more parliamentary majority. Joe Biden attributed these failures to the Republicans, recognizing that he did not “anticipate” such a degree of opposition from the Conservatives on his projects. “I have not made too big promises,” he said, “I had not anticipated that there would be such a partisan effort [of the Republicans] to ensure that President Biden could not accomplish anything “. On several occasions, he has also argued the Republicans on what their goals were. The Chairperson has nevertheless promised “Large Pans” of his vast social reform by splitting the plan of $ 1,750 billion in several investment projects, including the environment and education. Disappointing any change in Cap, Joe Biden delivered to a pedagogy exercise. “This has been a year of challenges, but also a year of enormous progress,” said US President, citing the massive CVIV-19 vaccination campaign. He pointed out that 75% of US adults were now fully vaccinated, compared to 1% when his administration took the reins. The officer also boasted “record job creation”, a “record growth” with an unemployment rate now 3.9%, compared to 6.4% a year ago. But, on several occasions, he regretted not going more in contact with the Americans, especially with black voters, who had massively voted for him to the presidential election of 2020. “I will be much on the ground” , he assured. If the economic statistics are impressive, inflation reached 7% in 2021, it is what concerns the Americans today. Fighting this inflation, at the highest for nearly forty years, will require “a long-term effort,” he conceded. “And by then, it will be painful for many people,” he said. Harritating from a bruised country by the Pandemic of Covid-19, shaken by a historic protest movement against racism, Joe Biden felt that the country was still “far from being as unified as it should Being “. “The best days of this country are still in front of us, not behind us,” he hammered. But it remains politically in difficulty: a new Gallup survey places its popularity rating at just 40%, compared to 57% upon arrival in power. Joe Biden has a little over a month to correct his image of President staring in the disappointments: between the news conference of Wednesday and his discourse on the state of the Union, traditional speech of general policy of presidents , scheduled for 1 er March in front of the congress. After, it will be according to the political commentators too late to hope to weigh on the mi-mandate legislative elections, planned in the fall, and which are bad for the Democratic Party. His team argues for patience, saying confident on the final balance sheet. The president has projected even in the election of 2024, indicating that he would once again choose his current Vice-President, Kamala Harris, to be his colisetory. Inflation at the highest
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