1) Biden struck Syria, but canceled a second strike when intelligence said women and children would be in danger.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-military-strike-in-syria-shows-biden-team-at-work-11614866795
2) Biden declined to put sanctions on the future leader of Saudi Arabia
nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/biden-mbs-khashoggi.html
3) Biden declared he won’t be canceling student loan debt
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/students-lament-biden-refusal-to-cancel-50000-in-student-debt.html
4) Vice President Harris told Israeli PM Netanyahu that the Biden Administration opposed the ICC’s investigation of war crimes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/5/harris-tells-netanyahu-that-us-opposes-icc-probe-of-israel
5) Biden limited imited eligibility for stimulus payments under pressure from moderate Senate Democrats:
And to conclude, “AP poll puts Biden job approval at 60 percent”
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/05/poll-biden-job-approval-60-percent-473849
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html
60% is higher than Obama got in most of his tenure, though not higher than early on when Obama’s rating was sky-high.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
Of course, politics are even more polarized now than they were in 2009.
Biden and his team have taken a decidedly centrist path, and early job approval numbers indicate that it is being positively received by the American people.
