Sept. 7, 2021: Biden’s ‘cradle to grave’ agenda

One challenge in covering the Dems’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is conveying the sheer enormity of it.

Nobody really even knows what to call it. Is it a jobs package? A human infrastructure bill? A climate bill? Social welfare legislation? Yes. Because Dems aim to pass into law every major domestic priority on which they can find agreement, it is all of those things and more.

The NYT’s Jonathan Weisman today has one of the better distillations of the breadth of this legislation by looking at its “cradle to grave” qualities and how they would affect the relationship between Americans and the federal government.

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