Opinion: Biden has an opportunity to ensure an FDR-like legacy, and he might blow it

Over the past month, many pundits lavished praise on President Biden and his supposedly transformative domestic policy agenda. The White House has basked in comparisons to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society ; some argued Biden might leave a more lasting imprint on the role of government than Barack Obama , in whose shadow Biden lived for years.

But in truth, Biden risks falling short of such history-defining legacies. That’s because he’s getting cold feet about making the most consequential part of his own agenda thus far permanent.

The trigger for all those comparisons between Biden and previous […]

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