Biden Brings Ambition Back to the US

Published in Ideal Digital
(Spain) on 1 April 2021
by Editorial (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Sergio Ferreras. Edited by Helaine Schweitzer.
Every White House resident knows he gets a four-year term, but that he has barely two before the often adverse midterm elections complicate his agenda. After tackling the great urgency of COVID-19, and stimulating a true fight against the coronavirus in the still-leading global superpower, Joe Biden must deploy all the ambition that the United States needs to stand up to China as soon as possible.

The "Build Back Better" plan, which has just been presented in the symbolic state of Pennsylvania, seeks, like Roosevelt's New Deal, to reestablish the fragile foundations of the country, which are increasingly often left vulnerable by hurricanes or cold waves. The 13th best place in the world in infrastructure quality, a position to which the U.S. has fallen, requires the 1.7 trillion euros (approximately $2 trillion) that the democrat plans to invest in eight years. The funds will create millions of jobs, recover roads and electrical networks that are almost in ruins, and, above all, overcome the structural inequality of minorities and women as well face the climate crisis. In the political battle ahead, Republicans will have to decide whether to serve only corporations or to work for the future of all Americans.


Todo inquilino de la Casa Blanca sabe que logra un mandato de cuatro años pero escasamente dispone de dos antes de que las elecciones de medio mandato, que suelen ser adversas, compliquen su agenda. Después de acometer la gran urgencia, estimular una verdadera lucha contra el coronavirus en la todavía primera potencia del planeta, Joe Biden debe desplegar cuanto antes toda la ambición que Estados Unidos necesita para plantar cara a China. El plan 'Reconstruir mejor' que acaba de presentar en el simbólico Estado de Pensilvania persigue, en la senda del New Deal de Roosevelt, cimentar los pies de barro del país, que cada vez más a menudo quedan al descubierto por un huracán o una ola de frío. El puesto número 13 del mundo en calidad de infraestructuras al que EE UU ha descendido exige los 1,7 billones de euros que el demócrata prevé invertir en ocho años. Crear millones de empleos, recuperar carreteras o redes eléctricas que se caen y sobre todo superar la desigualdad estructural de minorías y mujeres y afrontar la crisis climática. En la batalla política que se avecina, los republicanos deberán decidir si solo sirven a las corporaciones o trabajan por el futuro de todos los estadounidenses.
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