- Supreme Court abortion decision;
- Joe Manchin
- Bad jobs report
- Afghanistan disaster
Analysis: Supreme Court and Joe Manchin tighten Biden’s political straitjacket
Both the premise and promise of Joe Biden’s presidency and a possibly brief Democratic grip on Washington are suddenly on the line, as the legacy of past electoral disappointments and harsh realities of power suddenly converge.
Add in the Republican Party’s expanding assault on voting rights and a looming fight over raising government borrowing levels, and Democrats face a struggle to repay the faith of their 2020 voters. And that’s without horrendous tests from a pandemic that is again filling hospitals, targeting unvaccinated Americans — including, increasingly, kids who have been left waiting on regulators — and looking likely to dog the White House deep into midterm election year.
CNN