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Biden Wants ‘a Hell of a Lot Bigger’ Stimulus

April 25, 2020 · 6:13 pm ET · Leave a Comment

“Joe Biden wants a more progressive approach to economic stimulus legislation than Washington has taken so far, including much stricter oversight of the Trump Administration, much tougher conditions on business bailouts and long-term investments in infrastructure and climate that have so far been largely absent from congressional debates,” Politico reports.

“In a fiery half-hour interview, the presumptive Democratic nominee sounded a bit like his angrier and less moderate primary rivals, Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, though in unexpurgated Biden style. The former vice president said that the next round of coronavirus stimulus needs to be ‘a hell of a lot bigger’ than last month’s $2 trillion CARES Act, that it needs to include massive aid to states and cities to prevent them from ‘laying off a hell of a lot of teachers and cops and firefighters,’ and that the administration is already ‘wasting a hell of a lot of money.'”

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