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Biden to Target Industrial Pollution in a 2nd Term, if He Gets One
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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Also, opportunities for different policies are determined by the political cycle. Bold policies are usually done at the beginning of a term, presidential or otherwise because they know they've got the American people behind their back. They were just elected after all.
Mid-terms are usually when they focus on the economy and other things closer to normal people so that when the election roles around, what that politician did will be more salient in the voter's mind.
We got a lot of that:
The Washington Post has a much more complete list
Some things got overturned in court, like the drilling permit moratorium.
Also, the mid-terms were in 2022. Getting more and better Democrats in congress plus reelecting Biden would make it possible to do a lot more.