How Biden’s Agenda Could Fall Apart
The paranoid, high-stakes fight playing out among congressional Democrats as they try to deliver everything at once.
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Episode Notes
Congressional Democrats are struggling to bring together their moderate and progressive factions to pass an infrastructure bill and its gigantic sidecar, a budget plan filled with tax hikes, climate-related legislation, and social spending. With the party divided, is Biden’s agenda about to hit the skids?
Guest: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer and author of the weekly newsletter the Surge.
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Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad.
