In a joint address to Congress on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden outlined what can accurately be described as the most expensive and expansive agenda in modern American history.
Biden has proposed $6 trillion in new spending since taking office and has already signed $1.9 trillion in emergency spending related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A few minutes after Biden wrapped up his remarks, Rep. Jamaal Bowman said that's not nearly enough.
Biden made some vague promises about that during his remarks but Bowman was right to be more pointed in specifically calling "To end qualified immunity," the court-created legal doctrine that often shields police from civil liability when they harm civilians.
Biden has already embraced the governing-by-crisis approach and has adopted other progressive ideas into his first-year agenda.
Like Bowman, Biden called for passage of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a union-backed bill that would kill state-level right-to-work laws and force workers in some professions to contribute to unions whether they want to join or not.
Still, progressives are unlikely to be satisfied with Biden's agenda no matter how aggressively profligate it gets.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Joe Biden Just Outlined the Most Expensive Agenda in Modern History. Progressives Want More.
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