What to watch for during Bidenâs first big speech to Congress
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE The Associated Press,Updated April 28, 2021, 6:27 a.m.
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President Joe Biden paused while speaking on the North Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON (AP) â President Joe Biden is putting the finishing touches on his first address to a joint session of Congress, a prime-time speech on Wednesday night on the eve of his 100th day in office. Biden will use the speech before lawmakers and a broader viewing audience to talk about what heâs accomplished in the opening months of his presidency and to lay out his other domestic and foreign policy priorities.
Biden to pitch sweeping âfamily planâ in first joint address to Congress
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JOSH BOAK The Associated Press,Updated April 28, 2021, 2 hours ago
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US President Joe Biden.Sarah Silbiger/Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Blo
WASHINGTON â Marking his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden will use his first joint address to Congress to pitch a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would fundamentally transform the role government plays in American life.
Biden will make his case Wednesday night before a pared-down gathering of mask-wearing legislators due to coronavirus restrictions and in a US Capitol still surrounded by black fencing after insurrectionists protesting his election occupied the very dais where he will stand.
NBC sounded a rather different note, “At 100 days, Biden s approval remains strong.”
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These varying evaluations result from both different numbers and different analytic perspectives.
Start with analysis.
Comparisons are critical in analyzing poll data, but one must always ask, “compared to what?”
Less positive appraisals of President Biden’s standing compare him to the full range of presidents past. President Biden isn’t enjoying quite the honeymoon his predecessors did.
He’s just nowhere near the 83 percent approval John Kennedy
John Neely KennedyMORE registered 100 days in, nor even Eisenhower or Reagan’s 73 percent.
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Lest the obvious go unsaid, however, that’s not really a meaningful comparison for reasons that have nothing whatever to do with Joe Biden and everything to do with the partisan sclerosis that has deadened the responsiveness of the body politic to both personalities and polices.
The new guidance represents another carefully calibrated step on the road back to normal from the coronavirus outbreak that has killed over 570,000 people in the United States.