Morning Wire: Budget negotiations, Sen. Murray, Audit of jails
DJ Wislon
April 8, 2021
I interviewed US Rep. Kim Schrier this week, who framed something for me that I thought was interesting and a shift. She said that the politics of Washington DC were broken. And that bi-partisanship doesn’t mean working across the aisle. She said that when you have 75% of the American people supporting policy solutions, then that is clearly bi-partisan support, regardless of what one caucus or the other does in Congress.
That Wall Street is no longer connected to the experience of Main Street is a threat to our economics, in my view. If, as Schrier implies, our law making is no longer connected to our public opinion, that is likely a threat to our politics in the same way.