WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday (Jul 20) visits a shipyard symbolizing the industrial boom he hopes will put wind in his re-election campaign's sails, even if polls show most Americans cool on him continuing as their economic captain. The Democrat's pitch, which he'll make at the Philly Shipyar
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden on Thursday visits a shipyard symbolizing the industrial boom he hopes will put wind in his re-election campaign's sails, even if polls show most Americans cool on him continuing as their economic captain.
It's a strategy kickstarted by the Inflation Reduction Act, which poured almost US$500 billion in spending and tax breaks into green energy, as well as other huge legislative wins funding infrastructure and semiconductor development. The polls, though, show gloomy sentiment persisting and only a minority saying they trust Biden's performance.
And despite the statistics regularly rolled out by the White House showing the US economy leading G7 powers in recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic era, only 30 per cent of respondents thought this was the case, while 32 per cent thought the US economy is doing worse than other countries.
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