Where is the Biden administration headed and why?

In his address to a joint session of Congress last Thursday, Biden appears to have signaled a significant turn toward a program aimed at providing substantial benefits to working people.

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I'm Nicole Roussel,

here with Esther Iveram, Walter Smalerick,

and our host, Brian Becker.

Esther is also the host of the radio show and podcast

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which comes out weekly on Fridays. Brian, this is a huge story, the speech that happened last

week with Biden, but more importantly is what he actually outlined in the speech and what

calculations he and his administration are making. What do you think? Yes, and we have some audio clips from Biden's

speech. We want to be able to play them so people can hear them for themselves. We also have a

major article that Walter has published on Liberation News, which I thought was helpful because it was

very filled with facts and also filled with political

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