The Democrats currently control the House, Senate, and White House for the first time in more than ten years. That enviable position, which came to them after unexpectedly winning two Senate runoffs in January, has allowed them to pass President Joe Biden s $1.9 trillion recovery and stimulus plan and to tee up another package of up to $4 trillion of investments in green energy and other priorities.
Democrats with unified control of government, a popular new president, and passing ambitious agenda items aimed at making a green recovery from a deep recession sound familiar?
This is almost exactly the situation former president Barack Obama enjoyed in 2009-2010. But the rest of the decade was largely disappointing for Democrats. Though Obama was reelected in 2012, the party lost the House in 2010, the Senate in 2014, as well as 958 state legislative seats over the course of Obama s presidency. Donald Trump s win in 2016 and Republicans capture of the House and Senate capped
Starting a new job is always daunting. For Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who just weeks ago started a new stint as director general at the World Trade Organization, the timing could not be more trying: she is taking over the world s largest global trade body amid once-in-a-generation public health and economic crises that have emboldened protectionist inclinations around the world.
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Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, with the view from Europe: What s happening in Italy and can Mario Draghi fix it? Second question, how is the EU reacting to the coup in Myanmar?