News Analysis In some quarters, President Joe Biden received excellent reviews for his April 28 speech to a CCP virus-limited joint session of Congress, but a key House Democrat group’s tepid reaction may show a rough road ahead. Democrats and Republicans in Congress generally reacted according to their party’s customary talking points, with the former praising Biden’s unity calls and the latter zeroing in on the higher taxes and bigger deficits they foresee. Many of the Democratic reactions showed unalloyed praise, such as that of House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) who said on MSNBC that Biden’s speech showed the president “is not running away from the big solutions that are necessary. He’s running toward them and laying them out in a very clear and simple yet compelling fashion.” But one group of House Democrats—the 17 members of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition—issued a statement notable mainly for its restraint, …
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