In his speech before the Congress, the American president called for Bipartisan work, without unwanting about the resolute opposition of the Republicans.
by Piotr Smolar (Washington, correspondent )
The vigor of America, the ardor of its octogenarian president. Getting confidence and optimism, as well as energy that often lacks orally, Joe Biden engaged, Tuesday, February 7, to one of the flagship exercises of American politics: the speech on the state of the Union before the Congress. The president pronounced a long plea on the current industrial recovery in America, with sometimes protectionist accents, often empathetic, but also borrowed from the Republicans.
Joe Biden passed a vitality test. He succeeded rather by revisiting his classic formulas and his intimate references, polished over four decades of public life. With a leitmotif, repeated a dozen times: “Let’s finish work.” A way to draw a bridge between these two intense years in the White House and the future, which could go through a new presidential candidacy.
No thunderous announcement or reflection on the state of the world, but a long list, sometimes tedious, of already taken or hoped for measures, internally. The priority, for Joe Biden, consisted in focusing on the daily life of his fellow citizens. He landed as a defender of vulnerable Americans – elderly, sick, non -graduate workers – and he castigated those who crushed them, in classic allusions but so little followed by Congress. Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Tech: energy giants, the pharmaceutical sector and the web have been implicated for their abuse of dominant position, their disproportionate profits which thwart taxes or their non-compliance with life . Joe Biden has sometimes entered detail by evoking illegitimate charges such as the costs imposed by airlines so that a family is seated together or those which are paid in case of change of internet operator.
Call to deep America
But most of his remarks concerned the country’s economic reset. Many lights are green. Inflation remains strong but seems to be under control (6.5 % over a year, at the end of December). Above all, the White House claims twelve million jobs created in two years, a spectacular figure. The unemployment rate fell to 3.4 %, the lowest since 1969. It is difficult to measure the share of natural rebound after the peak of the pandemic and the direct effect of federal policies. The investment plans adopted at Congress – notably that on infrastructure – have barely started to be declined in the field, but Joe Biden strives to make the pedagogy by multiplying the trips.
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