Biden supporters 'apoplectic' one year into his presidency

And voters of color, like those across Biden’s political base, are furious that he hasn’t done more to protect their voting rights.“We mobilized to elect President Biden because he made promises to us,” Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., told The Associated Press, citing Biden’s pledge to address police violence, student loan debt, climate change and voter suppression, among other issues.“We need transformative change — our very lives depend on it,” Bush said. They are blocking the president’s plan to protect voting rights by refusing to bypass the filibuster, having already derailed Biden’s “Build Back Better” package, which calls for investments exceeding $2 trillion for child care, paid family leave, education and climate change, among other progressive priorities.“It has been a mistake to have backroom conversations with Manchin and Sinema for the last four months, or five months,” Sanders said. “If Biden doesn’t use the time he has left with a Democratic majority in Congress to fight tooth and nail for the promises that he was elected on, he will go down in history as a could-have-been president and ultimately a coward who didn’t stand up for democracy and a habitable planet.”Christian Nunes, president of the National Organization for Women, said she wants to see more urgency from Biden in protecting women’s priorities.“In these times, we need somebody who’s going to be a fighter,” she said. In recent years, nothing has unified Democrats more than Trump himself.Mary Kay Henry, president of the two-million-member Service Employees International Union, said her members want more from Washington, but they would be out in full force this year to remind voters of the work Biden has already done to address concerns about the pandemic and economic security.“President Biden is not the obstacle,” Henry said, pointing to the “intransigent Republican caucus in the Senate” who have unified against Biden’s Build Back Better package and his plan to protect voting rights.