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Originally Posted by mostpost
Only two presidents started in office with the country in worse shape than it was when Joe Biden took office.
Abraham Lincoln who took office with the country on the cusp of Civil War, and FDR who took office in the height of the worst economic depression in the nations history.
But Lincoln and FDR had something Biden has never had. Overwhelming majorities by their party in both houses of Congress. They also didn’t have members of their own party who seemed more focused on opposing their policies than in supporting them. And neither of them had to worry about the filibuster as it would is now constituted .
But despite all those obstacles, Biden has accomplished much.
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how could your wikisource not include Barack Obama, who started in a great financial depression?
