By Amie Parnes and Morgan Chalfant
TheHill
January 1, 2022
President Biden is staring down a number of minefields when he returns to Washington in the new year.
Biden will have to tackle major issues, including getting the coronavirus under control after a severe spike from the omicron variant during the holiday season. He will have to ensure that the deadly virus doesn’t overwhelm the nation’s health systems and the financial markets.
Biden will also have to try to revive talks about his signature climate and social spending legislation to see if parts of it can be salvaged and passed through Congress. And he’ll do it in a midterm election year in which Democrats fear they could lose the House.