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It “really could be definitional for our party for the next 50 years.”
President Joe Biden is looking to remake the structure of the American workforce. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden’s sprawling infrastructure plan doesn’t just attempt to turn decades-old progressive policy pursuits into law. Aides and operatives inside and out of the White House are coming to view it as an ambitious political play to cement, and even expand, the coalition of voters that delivered Democrats to power in November.
Biden’s advisers contend the pandemic has laid bare the need for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on a long list of “care economy” priorities that, like roads and bridges, have been neglected for too long, exacerbating inequality. And so, in addition to pursuing a more traditional infrastructure package, the White House is eyeing a second component that will include historic investments in everything from paid leave to com
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The Democratic Partyâs Consultant Factory
An Intercept investigation finds that a revolving door of friends and colleagues at the top echelons of the DCCC reinforces its corporate sensibility.
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2021.Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2021.Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images
In a 2018 House Democratic primary, Gina Ortiz Jones fought her way through a crowded field of congressional hopefuls and emerged as the nominee to take on the vulnerable incumbent, Republican Rep. Will Hurd, in Texasâs 23rd District. She seemed like the perfect candidate, as if molded in a lab: an openly gay Iraq war vet and former intelligence officer who could neutralize Hurdâs nine years at the CIA.