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I have covered Joe Biden for decades now. I covered him as a senator. I covered him as a vice president. I covered him as a participant in the Democratic Party, searching traumatized post-Trump debates about which direction to go. And I covered him twice as a presidential candidate. And I thought I had a pretty good handle on him. But I would not have predicted this presidency. I would not have predicted these bills. The American Rescue Plan was a $1.9 trillion bill that erred really heavily on the side of doing more. That is not, I would say, a hallmark of Joe Biden’s career up until now. But maybe you could say, well, it’s a coronavirus emergency. That changed everything. Well, coronavirus doesn’t explain the $2 trillion American Jobs Plan that just came out. This is not a coronavirus bill. It is not fixing problems caused by a pandemic. This is a searing critique of the pre-pandemic economy. It ....

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