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Trial Balloon · Ep. 191: Blue Wave Update

Passing Biden Agenda May Not Matter for 2022

November 4, 2021 · 6:56 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Democrats announced Wednesday that they would plow straight ahead on President Biden’s roughly $3 trillion agenda, arguing that the political trouncing their party suffered Tuesday across the nation mandated action,” the Washington Post reports.

“It was a predictable reaction, exactly in line with other recent congressional majorities after shellackings in Virginia and New Jersey’s oddly timed state elections. If history is any guide, Democrats will pass this massive agenda in the weeks or months ahead — and it will have little to no impact on their political standing in next year’s midterm elections.”

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