With Joe Biden headed out of the White House for good in a few weeks, we are finally starting to see some rumblings about just how terrible his presidency was. While sites like RedState have been talking about the litany of failures for years, the mainstream press had to wait until after the election before it was safe to acknowledge them.
Enter Politico, which released a report detailing some of the programs that crashed and burned, leaving Democrats without much to run on during the 2024 election. The irony, though, is the reason why they crashed and burned.
Joe Biden spent the first half of his presidency enacting plans to steer at least $1.6 trillion to transform the economy and spur a clean-energy revolution — only to watch those programs become afterthoughts in the 2024 election.
Now the core of his domestic legacy stands unfinished, with hundreds of billions of dollars left to deploy, and imperiled as Donald Trump prepares to take office.
Keep in mind, essentially all the money mentioned above was appropriated back in 2021, with the rest coming via the Inflation Reduction Act of mid-2022. This wasn’t a case of Biden simply running out of time because he passed an infrastructure bill six months before the election. The administration had years to expand broadband and build the electric vehicle charging stations it promised, but the actual results were disastrous.
Solar installations have surged to record levels, but the country is not adding enough zero-carbon electricity to meet Biden’s climate targets.
A $42 billion expansion of broadband internet service has yet to connect a single household.
Bureaucratic haggling, equipment shortages and logistical challenges mean a $7.5 billion effort to install electric vehicle chargers from coast to coast has so far yielded just 47 stations in 15 states.
A $42 billion expansion made in November of 2021 to expand broadband has connected zero homes to the internet. Meanwhile, and this garnered several mentions during the 2024 campaign, $7.5 billion appropriated for EV chargers has produced just 47 stations nationwide. For context, the program promised 500,000 chargers.
The obiden administration failed because the strings were being pulled by the TURD