A New Global Moment Emerges - It's An Opportunity for Joe Biden to Lead
A New Global Moment Emerges - It's An Opportunity for Joe Biden to Lead – As tough as COVID has been for the stability of the world and the well-being of mankind (and it is not done with us yet), we are about face a few more serious global challenges – an extended period of high energy and food prices and possible food shortages. These rising costs will slow economic activity throughout the world and act as a destructive tax on most of the world’s people. Food will not only be more expensive for poor people, but the global supply of wheat and grain are being disrupted by Russia’s aggression and now drought in India.
This is a moment which requires very strong American leadership. We must move on many fronts now – keep the coalition countering Russia’s aggression together; ensure efforts to finally defeat COVID are adequately funded; hasten global efforts to accelerate our transition to more distributed, cheaper and cleaner energy sources; advance a global plan to make widescale famine less likely; and begin a much more intense conversation about how to approach the rising number of refugees all around the world that unsettled times bring.
Joe Biden was elected to be a President who could lead the America and world through such challenging times. With his trip to Asia this week, and the upcoming Summit of the Americas and G7 meetings, the President is going to be given the opportunity to rally the world to meet these emergent challenges. It is vital as he does Congressional Democrats have his back and help him meet an increasingly important global moment.
The House New Democrat Coalition Turns 25 – This year the House New Democrat Coalition turns 25 years old. We will be offering our thoughts about this vital institution and what it has meant for US politics in a series of essays over the next few weeks. But as folks who were deeply involved in the formation of the group all those years ago, it’s our view that today’s NDC, led by the brilliant Rep. Suzan DelBene, is as strong as it has ever been. And that’s good news for America, for this forward-looking organization, which helped led the country successfully through the last generation of American politics, is going to be called on again to help us meet a new set of emergent challenges, some of which we touch on above.
When we started NDN in 1996 our slogan was “New Leaders for a New Time.” It feels like we are at such a moment again. And like those who “New Leaders” who came before we are very optimistic that the new and very capable team leading the NDC is on track to make sure the next 25 years is as impactful and important as the first 25.
