On Working With Congress, Biden Predicts Success Where Predecessors Failed
The president-elect insisted that his skills and his history would enable him to secure bipartisan support for bold initiatives.
“I’m going to be able to get stuff done on the environment you all are not going to believe,” President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. said.Credit...Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
Dec. 24, 2020
WASHINGTON — When he takes office next month, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. will confront a sharply divided Congress where many Republicans argued that his election was fraudulent.
But Mr. Biden expressed optimism on Wednesday that his decades-long brand of centrist deal making would empower him to move beyond the bitter partisanship of the past four years and advance his agenda.