March 6, 2021
1.9 IS A MAGIC NUMBER:
6 takeaways from the Senate's approval of Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill (Joey Garrison & Ledyard King, 3/06/21, USA TODAY)
5. Price tag remains intact, a win for BidenTo fend off naysayers about the bill's hefty price tag, Biden regularly argued the biggest risk was not going "too big," but rather making the bill too small to address the scope of the pandemic.It was a lesson learned during former President Barack Obama's first term, when Biden was vice president. Biden has said he regrets that the Obama-Biden administration did not put forward a larger stimulus in response to the Great Recession.In the end, the president got the dollar amount he wanted this time, a full $1.9 trillion, with little variation from the bill he introduced in January."The end result is essentially about the same," Biden told reporters.
It's even more the case with the $15 minimum wage, but this wedding yourself to a number instead of to substance is a mark of the triviality of our politics.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 6, 2021 7:13 PM