President Biden revealed plans to Congress yesterday that repudiate four decades of American economic orthodoxy JIM WATSON/UPI/ALAMYJoe Biden campaigned for the presidency on the promise of a “return to normalcy”. It was widely assumed that he would be a transitional president who would govern as he has conducted himself throughout his 50-year political career, by seeking to forge bipartisan consensus. Instead he showed once again in a speech to Congress to mark his first 100 days in office that he is determined to be a transformational president. SponsoredHe announced plans for a $1.8 trillion American Families Plan consisting of $1 trillion of new spending on free early years childcare, state-funded sickness and paternity leave, two years of free college tuition and $800 billion of childcare tax credits. This comes on top of a $1.9 trillion pandemic recovery fund already delivered and

Source: The Times April 29, 2021 22:52 UTC