Senate’s new budget boss is also a climate hawk

Senate’s new budget boss is also a climate hawk

[ad_1] “I just have a very strong general sympathy for underdogs,” Whitehouse said during a recent interview in his Capitol Hill office, which features a collection of Yacht Club bottles (Rhode Island’s official state soda) and walls adorned with moody lighthouse photos. The junior Ocean State senator is hardly an underdog himself. His father, Charles…

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Biden’s new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu

Biden’s new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu

[ad_1] The growing fixation on the deficit is notable for a White House that championed an expansive economic agenda, including trillions of dollars in emergency deficit spending that, it says, proved critical to fighting the pandemic and revitalizing the economy. The rhetorical shift has quietly worried some progressive-minded Democrats who warn it could undermine the…

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