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Biden's spending plans are 'the biggest expansion of the state' since the 1960s30/04/2021|5min
President Joe Biden has had a “remarkable 100 days” as he announces massive spending to fund social reform like past President Lyndon Baines Johnson, according to US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman.
“Increasingly I’m looking (at) historical analogues, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, in terms of the rallying of the nation around a grand purpose and that purpose is, as Biden said in that speech to Congress, the fight for the 21st Century to show the world that democracy still works,” he told Sky News.
“The suite of spending programs he is announcing is nothing other than the biggest expansion of the state since Lyndon Johnson’s grand society plan of the mid ‘60s and of course he’s got the political tailwinds of a stronger than expected vaccine rollout.”