The president knows that his best opportunity to see laws passed that are on his agenda have to be completed during his first two years in office. Why? Because control of congress usually is won by the opposition party in the second two years.
Biden has stuffed everything he dreams of accomplishing into his $2 trillion infrastructure and climate plan. He calls it the American Jobs Plan. The ‘Imminent’ Collapse of Wastewater Reservoir in Florida Forces Evacuations definitely sends the message that America’s infrastructure is in very bad shape. America’s infrastructure received an overall grade of C- from the American Society of Civil Engineers, according to the group’s 2021 Report Card.
The control of the House of Representatives during Trump’s second two years went to the Democrats. That very thing happened during Barack Obama presidency. In fact both houses were controlled by the GOP during the last two years of his presidency. It’s not a given since George W. Bush managed to have a GOP congress for four years but Eisenhower, who was president for two terms, saw both houses in Democratic control for six of his eight years in office. The Democratic Party has a very narrow control of both houses. Just the loss of one seat in the Senate and the GOP will again be in control. Doyle McManus in the Los Angeles Times reports that most prognosticators predict the GOP will gain control of the House of Representatives in the 2022 election.
Incidentally, I started writing this piece before the McManus column.
A reservoir in Florida that holds nearly 400 million gallons of wastewater from a former phosphate mine was leaking on Saturday, prompting hundreds of evacuations, the authorities said.
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