WASHINGTON: Incumbent President Joe Biden entered the 2024 election race on Tuesday (Apr 26) with something he didn't have two-and-a-half years ago: A record in the White House. He plans to run on it, highli
on Tuesday with something he didn't have two-and-a-half years ago: A record in the White House.
But he was criticized from one side for extending lockdown measures and from the other for being too quick to declare the pandemic over, and too slow to distribute tests and ship vaccines overseas. The surge in prices forced the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates quickly, a tightening that some worry could spark a recession.
Biden has also struggled with long-time ally Saudi Arabia, which has backed oil output cuts from OPEC+ that the United States says are unnecessary. The president's signature Inflation Reduction Act has been called the biggest investment in climate change mitigation in history, with billions of dollars in incentives to boost renewable energy and carbon-reduction measures.
The decision in January to block more migrants at the border while opening new limited, legal pathways to immigrants broke a promise to restore access to asylum, but has not shielded him from Republican criticism on the issue.
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