Biden’s big FDR-style agenda is already sputtering to a halt

It has finally dawned on President Joe Biden that he barely controls the House and the Senate.

His remarks on Tuesday taking a swipe at Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) were notable less for how they publicly aired an intraparty dispute than for their utter banality. “I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ ” he said, referring to himself in the third person in classic Washington fashion. “Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”