Agree to Disagree: Build Back Better

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Biden administration wants to spend big. Its $4.5 trillion "Build Back Better" plan includes hefty investments in infrastructure, unprecedented spending on the labor force, and funding for a host of Democratic policy priorities. But just what would this mean for the American economy? As Washington takes up this historic plan, we ask: Should Congress spend trillions to “Build Back Better”? Arguing in favor of the motion is Mark Zandi . Arguing against the motion is Michael Strain. Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.0	If it's good policy, if people like it, if the American population thinks that that's the right thing to do,
0:35.0	it will survive, you know, regardless.
0:37.2	It's not going to survive based on whether it's good policy.
0:41.1	It's going to be subject to a political process that is substance free to an unfortunately large degree.
0:52.3	4.5 trillion dollars.
0:58.3	That give or take a few hundred billion.
1:00.8	That is the number that President Joe Biden has proposed to get America moving forward.
1:06.0	He's calling it the Build Back Better Plan.
1:08.2	Well, that is the idea, a gigantic amount of spending that is ambitious or aggressive or
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