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February 15, 2021 The president has formed an early working relationship with progressive Democrats, easing concerns about an intraparty battle. SHOW TRANSCRIPT President Joe Biden has been in the White House less than a month — and so far, he's managed to curry favor with the party's left wing, staving off an intraparty battle that previously seemed all but certain. "They've been really great at outreach," Rep. Mark Pocan, chair emeritus of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said of the Biden White House in an interview with Newsy. "You can tell Joe Biden's not a rookie — he's done t...

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Point & counterpoint | Healing America: Karen Dolan - Beneath division lie common goals Karen Dolan FacebookTwitterEmail Biden has promised to bring a divided electorate together. Is this even possible? Social divisions may take a generation to heal. But with enough political will, the answer on policy questions should be a resounding yes. Despite our divisions, progressive responses to bread and butter issues enjoy broad, bipartisan support. Majority support exists for everything from cash relief payments during the COVID-19 crisis to increasing the minimum wage and expanding health care. Th...

Does Mitch McConnell Want to Lose the Senate?   It’s almost like Mitch McConnell is tired of controlling the Senate. In the past days, he’s urged his fellow Republicans not to raise objections to the electors this coming January 6th that, barring some historic bravery and perhaps a miracle, will see the most corrupt, incompetent, and Trojan-horsey candidate take the most powerful seat in the world. And then came the passing of the worst bill perhaps in U.S. history—veiled in “Covid relief”—that’s stuffed with leftist garbage, cronyism, and massive amounts of wealth redistribu...

The GOP Just Let Democrats Have Their Stimulus and Campaign On It Too Intelligencer 12/30/2020 © Paras Griffin/Getty/Getty Images Right on the money. Paras Griffin/Getty/Getty Images Next week, voters in Georgia will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate in 2021 — and thus, quite plausibly, the future of macroeconomic, climate, and health-care policy in the United States. President-elect Joe Biden has signaled that, should his party secure full control of the federal government, it will send hundreds of billions in fiscal aid to state and city governments, thereby averting cut...