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This is a better description of Trump's presidency than Biden's, especially right now when inflation is not out of control, and Biden has done everything he can to forgive student loans.
I mean none of these things got better under any president in recent memory, they just got eroded a lot less quickly under certain ones
Didn't Obama try to come up with a healthcare solution that was undermined by conservatives? Which Trump tried to neuter as hard as possible?
Didn't Biden try to forgive student loans, which conservatives kept stopping?
I feel the "both sides are doing it" argument isn't entirely true.
With respect, it looked like a "try" in many cases but consider his decades in politics and knowing likely outcomes of any given proposal. Then consider his best of the best, Ivy League-educated cabinet, advising him on every chess move. If you don't look at both sides, you might find yourself in a disingenuous ruse.
I tried but what could I do?
How could I have known Joe Manshun would say no?
We didn't have a filibuster proof majority (which we could have eliminated with a simple rule change like we did with the debt ceiling- but oddly didn't for infrastructure).
Oh those legal challenges came out of left field and our best and brightest from Harvard never saw it coming.
I co-authored the bankruptcy bill that exempted student debt when I was a Senator but now my intentions are different. Student debtors, I'm on your side now. Don't you see?