Biden Is Using the Pandemic as an Excuse for Permanent Expansions of Government Power

In last night's address to a joint Congress, Biden made clear that he wants to extend some these policies, turning COVID-era emergency measures into permanent expansions of federal power, using the virus as an excuse.

For Biden, the pandemic has become a catchall justification for a wide array of big-government programs that he and the Democratic Party already wanted to pursue.

Last night, Biden announced that he wants to extend the subsidy boost indefinitely, which would cost an estimated $200 billion.

Biden is using this playbook to extend and expand other programs as well.

Even as COVID fades away, Biden is pursuing massive expansions of federal power premised on crisis response.

Biden is pursuing a historically unprecedented expansion of government spending and power for its own sake.

Biden's presidency is barely three months old, but it's already fallen into a predictable pattern: Point to the pandemic.

https://reason.com/2021/04/29/biden-is-using-the-pandemic-as-an-excuse-for-permanent-expansions-of-government/