The 2022 midterms are a no-win for Democrats

One mistake was not appointing a spending watchdog as FDR had with his budget chief, Lewis Douglas, who cut waste and sought efficiencies during Roosevelt’s famed first 100 days. Instead, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s Covid spending tracker says $5.6 trillion has been spent or distributed to deal with the virus—while another $1 trillion of appropriated money hasn’t been deployed. Despite this, Congress is talking about appropriating more money, leaving a growing number of Americans to wonder why.

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This compounds the administration’s mistake of dismissing inflation as transitory, which undermines public confidence. Many Americans understand that Mr. Biden’s massive federal spending has been a big contributor to inflation, flooding the market with too much money chasing too few goods.

Further, when the president heralds historic job gains, Americans know that’s baloney, and that the snap-back happened as businesses re-opened and people began living with Covid’s presence. It had nothing to do with government spending. Then there are the millions who dropped out of the workforce. That’s not good, yet Mr. Biden seems strangely unaware of its ramifications for America. Maybe that’s why 64% think the country is headed in the wrong direction and only 28% believe it’s on the right track in the RealClearPolitics average.

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