Mr. Biden believes he has a short window of a time in which to push through big projects. Even though Democrats’ margins on Capitol Hill are small, they are, in his view, sufficient to execute an agenda thwarted by Mr. Trump and his allies last year. When the Democrat-controlled House passed a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill last May, it was the most expensive legislation ever approved by a chamber of Congress in U.S. history. The $2.2 trillion stimulus law that was ultimately signed into law by Mr. Trump in March 2020 was the largest spending bill to date in American history. Mr. Biden is scheduled on Tuesday to extend the Paycheck Protection Program, which was created by that law, to May 31.

Source: New York Times March 30, 2021 12:31 UTC