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US President Joe Biden

celebrated his first major legislative success on Saturday

after the difficult adoption of a vast infrastructure investment plan, but he has yet to overcome divisions in his party to pass the social and ecological component of his ambitious reforms. . "I do not think that I am exaggerating when affirming

that it is a colossal advance for our country,

" the president assured in front of the cameras, his face visibly relieved after months of laborious negotiations.

He also said that he would enact this law "soon", for an amount of 1.2 trillion dollars in investments

to modernize the roads and bridges in ruins of the world's largest economy

, as well as correct the country's delays in the installation of Internet of high speed. Biden received the final endorsement of Congress on Friday night, thanks to the vote of the overwhelming majority of Democrats, but also a handful of Republicans.

"

To all those who feel abandoned and marginalized by a rapidly changing economy: this law is for you,

" he launched, praising a "plan for workers" that will create "thousands of jobs" that "will not require a college degree. "

According to the Democratic president, the concrete effects will begin to be felt on the ground "within three months."

Biden desperately needed this victory

as his popularity rating plummeted after a resounding electoral defeat for his party in the key state of Virginia, already a year into the midterm parliamentary elections, in which the Democrats held. they risk losing their tiny parliamentary majorities.

The glass half full

The veteran former senator had to demonstrate his negotiating capacity, which had been praised so much during the electoral campaign against Donald Trump but which until now had not allowed him to overcome the divisions between the left and the centrists within the Democratic Party. But the glass of his reform plans,

which involve an investment of around three trillion dollars in ten years

to reshape the welfare state, is only half full.

Biden has not yet been able to convince a handful of moderate Democratic lawmakers to also vote for the $ 1.75 trillion of the social and ecological component of the plan, which provides, for example,

daycare for all children, a profound improvement in coverage. of health

and significant investments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The so-called

Build Back Better

(BBB) ​​("Rebuild better"), that device remains in limbo. This Saturday, from the White House,

the president recommitted himself to have Congress vote for him.

"I will be clear: it is going to be approved in the House of Representatives and it is going to be approved in the Senate," he said, referring to "a historic investment" that, according to him, will not aggravate inflation or the public deficit and will only increase taxes. for the very rich.

However, although he predicts a review by the Chamber in the week of November 15, when he will turn 79 years old,

the president has not yet set a deadline for the final adoption of his social project

. In the Senate, West Virginia centrist Democrat Joe Manchin continues to hold out, hindering any predictions as to whether the plan will eventually be adopted.

Asked about the reason for his optimism despite the obstacles he still has to overcome, Biden replied with a smile: "Me." Thanks to his constant negotiations behind

the

scenes,

the 46th president of the United States has managed to unblock an agreement

in his party to allow the adoption of the infrastructure project. The moderate legislators of the House of Representatives pledged to vote the BBB plan if an evaluation of the services of the Congress, expected in the next days, confirms the quantification of its cost to the public finances.

That announcement allowed the vast majority of lawmakers from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, who had initially called for an almost simultaneous vote on the two plans,

to in turn support the infrastructure text

, despite the fact that six of its members ultimately voted in against.

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