Here's Biden speaking on his $1.9 trillion plan. I appreciate the ambition. I believe it's a solid collection of policies. I think the strategy is kind of bonkers.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1349872996920430595
"With interest rates at historic lows, we cannot afford inaction."
The deficit hawk has been shooed away
The deficit hawk has been shooed away
Biden laying out the rescue half tonight, says the Build Back Better Plan will be the subject of his speech to a joint session of Congress (the State of the Union, effectively)
"The vaccine rollout in the United States has been a dismal failure thus far." It *started* that way, yes...
Put it this way, Biden is underpromising. He says the rollout's been a failure and he'll do 1 million shots/day. In the last week the average has been about 800,000/day. We need more of a ramp up than that.
The $400 billion for vaccine and testing is easily the most important and critical part of this bill. Massive return on investment.
Biden would top up the $300/wk unemployment supplement to $400/week.
On average since the beginning of the pandemic, we've been at just under $300/wk. (4 mo at $600, 5 mo at nothing, now $300)
On average since the beginning of the pandemic, we've been at just under $300/wk. (4 mo at $600, 5 mo at nothing, now $300)
That's a smart little note, contracting with restaurants to make food for the hungry. Two birds, one stone.
I've been talking to people this week about the rental assistance in the December COVID relief bill. They say that it looks like it'll be very difficult to access, and renters with small landlords might be less likely to get it
I don't know why you bury something as popular as a minimum wage increase inside a relief bill. Make Republicans vote against that straight up
"Imagine... all made in America, all made by Americans" Take that Ricardo
Why yes President-elect Biden, caregiving is an important issue, maybe the most
prospect.org/familycare
prospect.org/familycare
Biden leaning hard into large investments now being more fiscally responsible in the future.
How long have we been closing those tax loopholes that ship jobs overseas? It was a big part of John Kerry's 2004 campaign speech.
Nice @theprospect shoutout Joe
Joe's done.
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