President Biden's agenda has bipartisan popular support but faces Congressional hurdles By John Zogby

Week Two of the Biden presidency and the barriers around Congress are up and reinforced — probably permanently. But so too are the speed bumps threatening to slow down Biden's agenda.

He remains focused on his mission: accelerating vaccinations for COVID-19, relief for millions hurt financially, climate change, racial equity, and regulatory reform. Thus far, he is using executive orders to undo his predecessor's orders, but he will need legislation. His slim Democratic majorities in both houses have a plan to utilize reconciliation to pass any spending required for COVID-19 relief, so the president's actions will not be completely hampered.

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The president may also be aided by the likes of newly seated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who is just too vile to describe. The GOP is torn between censoring her (or removing her from her education committee assignment), thus risking alienating the Trump wing that still speaks for the vast majority of the Republican Party, or just ignoring her and letting her dominate the conversation with her extreme views. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has not helped himself this week by visiting, taking photos with, and pitching funds with former President Donald Trump.

In a powerful reminder of the former president's legacy, Biden's attempts to stop the deportations of immigrants illegally residing the United States were stopped in their tracks by a federal judge appointed by Trump. I will have a new poll out in a couple of days showing that Biden has built a governing majority with some impressive bipartisan support. So, this week belongs to him.

John Zogby (@TheJohnZogby) is the founder of the Zogby Poll and Zogby companies, including John Zogby Strategies, and author of We Are Many We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics in the 21st Century America.