Joe Biden was in charge of how federal stimulus dollars were spent amid the Great Recession — a part of his record that may be important to voters as they weigh whether he should replace President Trump.
in grad school, and nobody ever talked about how you're going to have to try to get governors and mayors to do what you wanted them to with the resources that were coming their way," said Jared Bernstein, Biden's former chief economic adviser, who continues to informally advise his old boss."Probably the most pronounced lesson I took from my work back then is how incredibly mistaken it is to assume implementation. It doesn't happen by itself.
Government estimates found less than 0.5% of the money doled out to contractors was attributed to waste or fraud. Republicans blame Democrats, and Democrats blame Republicans. Liberals argue that they would have preferred a longer, larger stimulus package, but say conservatives didn't cooperate. Steel is referring to the fact that the stimulus was being implemented around the same time that President Obama began pushing for the Affordable Care Act.Even though Republicans broadly opposed the Recovery Act, Biden's former chief of staff Ron Klain says many were still eager for a cut of the money.
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