The US president is celebrating his 100 days in the White House, as he organized an international climate summit this week.
Next Thursday, April 29, Joe Biden will have spent the first 100 days of his mandate in the White House. The day before, at the invitation of the Democratic President of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the American president will address to members of Congress his first general policy speech - no doubt the assessment of what has been achieved and the announcement of future projects.
Professional politician
The most emblematic goal of the new administration has already been achieved: 200 million doses of the anti-Covid 19 vaccine have been injected in record time. And the United States is ready to bounce back. Admittedly the country is weakened, society remains undermined by violence, its racial and cultural wars, the political class, the media, the social networks bear the stigmas of the Trump years, but the observation is clear: this 78-year-old president who 'we saw stumbling on the stairs of Air Force One, this professional politician whose approximate verb and disappointed ambitions were mocked, this candidate who was said to be too old, too soft to be up to a social and political crisis of such magnitude, here in action, surrounded by an experienced team, he commits the country in considerable reforms and affirms an energetic return on the international scene.
What are the advances, the gray areas, the failures of the Biden administration to date? Stimulus packages show huge sums while raising corporate taxes: is this a new New Deal, a structural revolution that we should be inspired by?
Politically, the Republican Party remains under the thumb of Donald Trump, will he continue to radicalize and block the projects of the Democratic administration? Beautiful poster yesterday and the day before yesterday with the virtual summit on the climate at the invitation of Joe Biden, including Xi Jinping and Vladimir Poutine, but also strong verbal confrontations with China, with Russia, ostentatious support for European allies… What consequences for our economies and our aspirations for strategic autonomy?
Christine Ockrent welcomes Laurence Nardon, head of the United States program at the French Institute of International Relations, author of the podcast co-produced by Ifri and Slate entitled "New Deal".
Benjamin Haddad, Director of Europe at the Atlantic Council in Washington, author of "Paradise Lost: Trump's America and the End of European Illusions" (Grasset, 2019)
Corentin Sellin, associate professor of history in CPGE and author of the "This Is America" series for Les Jours, whose column this weekend is about Biden and firearms
Pierre-André Chiappori, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, holder of the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider chair
