Historian at Stanford University and author of United States Freedom from Fear: Americans in Depression and War, 1929-1945.
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“They’re just not in that league,” he said.
Mr. Kennedy said that while Mr. Roosevelt has a majority in Congress, Mr. Biden’s party has little control and there is great internal disagreement.
“Today’s Democrats are much more fragmented in all sorts of departments,” Kennedy said. .”
“The packaging is much smaller and more discreet, which was to be expected,” he added.
Biden’s accomplishments, even small in the eyes of some, may prove to be his legislative high-water mark. After the final votes were tallied, Mr. Biden congratulated dozens of Roosevelt Room staff in a video call to his longtime adviser Steve Ricketty.
The president, who is vacationing in South Carolina, told them they had changed the world and made a difference to American families, according to government officials.
But even as the White House celebrated the bill on Friday, the final deal was between majority leader Sen. Principally signed by Senator Manchin III and Senator Kirsten Cinema of Arizona. In an e-mailed statement on Friday, Mr. Manchin’s office took full credit for the legislative victory, announcing the House passage of “Manchin’s Inflation Reduction Act.”