Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, January 14th. I'm Nyla Boone. Here's

what we're watching today, curbing carbon emissions by changing how planes land.

But first, President Biden's epic fail is today's one big thing.

President Biden hasn't been seeing a lot of winds lately. Yesterday, the Supreme

Court blocked enforcement of his vaccine or test mandate for employers with more than

100 workers, although the court did allow for a mandate for workers at federally funded

health care facilities. We're almost a year into Biden's presidency and he's in a rare

position with Republicans, moderate and liberal Democrats, all at odds with his agenda.

Axios co-founder Mike Allen and managing editor for Politics Margaret Taliv are here for

our Friday Politics Combo. Hey, guys.

Good morning, Nyla. Good morning, Nyla. Two of President Biden's biggest legislative initiatives.

The Billback Better Act and now voting rights are going nowhere. So what does it say about

his leverage within his own party? Well, Nyla, that's the problem is not only are they

not going anywhere, but what's next? Like usually when you're in a slump, you at least

know how to get out of it or at least you have another game. That's the problem for the

administration is the two measures that they sort of counted on as their rocket fuel are,

as you correctly point out, not headed anywhere. A lot of this is the hand President Biden was

dealt. He has a 50-50 Senate. He has a couple of Democratic senators who are not helping and

are hindering a lot of the agenda, but he knew that math and has set up these two huge issues

Billback Better and voting rights when it's not clear what the path is.

This is early for a President to be faltering like this. Joe Biden really has nowhere to go. He has

very little leverage on the merits and it's a pandemic that's bigger than any of us. It's a virus

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