Charles M. Blow: Roosevelt's New Deal failed Black Americans. Can Biden do better?

Aug 12, 2021 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    -20% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    62% Negative

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"President Joe Biden's grand plan to deliver a new New Deal that will build back better, transform American infrastructure and bounce the country back from the pandemic moved one step closer to reality this week when the U.S. Senate, with bipartisan support, approved the $1 trillion infrastructure bill."
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10% Conservative
"There is no doubt that the New Deal -- a series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted from 1933 to 1939 -- transformed this country."
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2% Conservative
"But President Donald Trump used this language to siphon off $2.5 billion to fund his border wall, a monument to hate and xenophobia."
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-46% Liberal
"So much of this brings Biden to mind."
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18% Conservative
"President Joe Biden's grand plan to deliver a new New Deal that will build back better, transform American infrastructure and bounce the country back from the pandemic moved one step closer to reality this week when the U.S. Senate, with bipartisan support, approved the $1 trillion infrastructure bill."
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4% Conservative
"Biden designed his infrastructure plan to help undo discrimination."
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6% Conservative
"That work could -- and will likely -- extend well beyond the Biden administration."
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2% Conservative
"As LawFare reported, a month before leaving office, President Barack Obama signed a nearly 1,000-page bill giving the secretary of Defense authority to build roads and fences and install lighting to block drug smuggling corridors into the United States."
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-8% Liberal
"But as Biden seeks to anoint himself the next Franklin Roosevelt, we should note that there are some pitfalls that the 32nd president either wouldn't or couldn't avoid and that Biden may be dangerously close to repeating."
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-14% Liberal
"The Trump administration was sued over this, but the Supreme Court affirmed his right to do it."
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-18% Liberal
"The oversight and regulatory mechanisms for Biden's infrastructure package will need to be bulletproof to prevent Republican lawmakers from abusing the funding or directing it away from its intended targets:"
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-22% Liberal
"But President Donald Trump used this language to siphon off $2.5 billion to fund his border wall, a monument to hate and xenophobia."
Negative
-36% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : President Joe Biden's grand plan to deliver a new New Deal that will "build back better," transform American infrastructure and bounce the country back from the pandemic moved one step closer to reality this week when the U.S. Senate, with bipartisan support, approved the $1 trillion infrastructure bill.
51% : There is no doubt that the New Deal -- a series of programs, public works projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted from 1933 to 1939 -- transformed this country.
27% : But President Donald Trump used this language to siphon off $2.5 billion to fund his border wall, a monument to hate and xenophobia.

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