After more than a year, Biden no longer believes that most Republicans will eventually drop their fealty to Trump and show a willingness to engage. “I never expected the ultra-MAGA Republicans...to have been able to control the Republican Party,” he said.
The White House tried with no avail to win Republican support for its $1.9 trillion March 2021 Covid relief bill but didn’t give up its efforts. Zeroing in on passing a bipartisan infrastructure deal, Biden chose to ignore growing Democratic concern that he was prioritizing working with Republicans over a series of his own party’s priorities, including voting rights and climate change. But top aides argued that the public would reward him for getting GOP support for a portion of his agenda.
There was no single moment that prompted Biden to change course, the people close to him said. But as Republicans attacked his efforts to control surging inflation, the president chose to respond in kind. A feud with Sen. Rick Scott — whose tax plan was pounced upon by Democrats and largely ignored by fellow Republicans — quickly turned deeply personal, with Scott saying the president was “incoherent” and “incapacitated” and Biden responding that “I think the man has a problem.
The White House took pains to note that it did receive GOP support on the infrastructure bill and also picked up some GOP votes for some high-profile Senate confirmations, including of incoming Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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