He joins the Democratic chorus looking to send money to the states and cities like he and President Obama did in 2009 to handle that recession…
Trump & Co., with Democratic approval, have been more about sending money to businesses, except for the $1,200 sent to average Americans, ONCE…
But Biden also wants stricter oversight of where the money goes like back in his time…
Trump has removed any independent oversight and has people ‘ loyal’ to him running the show…
We’ve already seen money going the wrong places and some companies actually sending the money back because they were NOIT supposed to get any….
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.
In a fiery half-hour interview with POLITICO, the presumptive Democratic nominee sounded a bit like his angrier and less moderate primary rivals, Senators 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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The Obama stimulus was wildly controversial, but it won bipartisan praise for its strict oversight and unusually low levels of fraud. In the interview, Biden was at his most indignant when he recounted how he recruited a gruff law enforcement veteran and government watchdog named Earl Devaney to oversee the Recovery Act in 2009, and how President Donald Trump fired the Pentagon inspector general who had been selected to oversee the CARES Act almost immediately after he signed it….
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Joe Biden continues to make sure his name is in the media after being kn locked for being almost invisible….
The push for more money , while knocking the Trump’s bailing out corporations , plays well to the Sanders progressives…But actually a lot of the Obama/Biden stimulus money went to bail out the banks AND the state’s….
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