Biden’s realism approach runs head-on into liberal pressure


              FILE - President Barack Obama announces that his administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger immigrants living in the country illegally who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives, during a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, June 15, 2012. Obama in 2012 unilaterally enacted the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is still standing today. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
            
              FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 12, 2021. From left, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., Vice President Kamala, Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. Biden, who served for 36 years in the Senate, is an institutionalist to his core and has tried to operate under the constraints of those institutions — unlike his predecessor who repeatedly pushed the boundaries of executive power. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
            
              FILE - Dr. Rahul Gupta, left, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, walks with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., at the White House, Nov. 18, 2021, in Washington. President Joe Biden’s cautionary approach could be to protect himself if the White House falls short — like Democrats did in negotiating a party-line spending package centered on the social safety net and climate provisions. That sweeping effort had been steadily thwarted in recent months due to resistance from two moderate Democrats, including Manchin, who on Thursday scuttled for the time being a scaled-back effort that focused on climate and taxes. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
            
              FILE - President Barack Obama meets with, from left, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., Vice President Joe Biden, the president, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 1, 2016, to discuss the vacancy in the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
            
              FILE - President Joe Biden walks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Oct. 28, 2021, during a visit to meet with House Democrats. Biden, who served for 36 years in the Senate, is an institutionalist to his core and has tried to operate under the constraints of those institutions — unlike his predecessor who repeatedly pushed the boundaries of executive power. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
            
              FILE - President Joe Biden, with a bipartisan group of senators speaks June 24, 2021, outside the White House in Washington. Biden invited members of the group of 21 Republican and Democratic senators to discuss the infrastructure plan. From left are, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Biden, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. and Se. Mark Warner, D-Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
            
              FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about abortion access during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, July 8, 2022, in Washington. Since the Supreme Court last month nullified the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, the White House has come under considerable pressure to try and maintain access to abortion in conservative states that are set to outlaw the procedure. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Biden’s realism approach runs head-on into liberal pressure