This bill isn't anything close to a New Deal agenda in any way shape or form. Tossing around "New Deal" doesn't make it so.
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
28 Oct 2021
A few reasons BBB is getting slashed • Biden is pursuing a New Deal agenda without New Deal majorities • He has ~96% of Democrats but the other ~4% have veto power and are wielding it ruthlessly • Dems never prioritized their policies, thus lacked a playbook for how to trim
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FDR's goal during the New Deal was to break the power of oligarchs. He did it while governor of New York, he ran on it in 1932, and he implemented it when in office. That's not Biden or the Democrats or the progressives' goal. Social spending wasn't the New Deal.
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Replying to @matthewstoller
We’re walking backwards.

Oct 28, 2021 · 1:57 PM UTC

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