Dylan Scott

It was a very, very big package. It was about $1.9 trillion.

So Biden's line was, this is what we need to emerge from this catastrophe. It was very much like, we're in an emergency. Yes, this is a massive bill, but we need a massive bill to get out of this. I want to be clear that I was saying that in the moment. A lot of people were saying that in the moment. But there were people at the time who were saying, maybe this is too big.

So Biden's line was, this is what we need to emerge from this catastrophe. It was very much like, we're in an emergency. Yes, this is a massive bill, but we need a massive bill to get out of this. I want to be clear that I was saying that in the moment. A lot of people were saying that in the moment. But there were people at the time who were saying, maybe this is too big.

So Biden's line was, this is what we need to emerge from this catastrophe. It was very much like, we're in an emergency. Yes, this is a massive bill, but we need a massive bill to get out of this. I want to be clear that I was saying that in the moment. A lot of people were saying that in the moment. But there were people at the time who were saying, maybe this is too big.

Larry Summers is probably the most famous of them, but was warning that This was such a massive package that it would predictably cause inflation. And at the time, I thought that was ridiculous. I no longer think it was ridiculous.

Larry Summers is probably the most famous of them, but was warning that This was such a massive package that it would predictably cause inflation. And at the time, I thought that was ridiculous. I no longer think it was ridiculous.

Larry Summers is probably the most famous of them, but was warning that This was such a massive package that it would predictably cause inflation. And at the time, I thought that was ridiculous. I no longer think it was ridiculous.

Yeah, my brand as a journalist is I'm wrong a lot. I don't know why people keep paying me for that, but...

Yeah, my brand as a journalist is I'm wrong a lot. I don't know why people keep paying me for that, but...

Yeah, my brand as a journalist is I'm wrong a lot. I don't know why people keep paying me for that, but...

So I don't know. I know a lot of people who are very enthusiastic about the Inflation Reduction Act. I can't name a single one of them who thinks it reduced inflation. I think there's like near unanimous agreement that that was like a marketing exercise. Yeah, a good one, maybe. But yeah, I think...

So I don't know. I know a lot of people who are very enthusiastic about the Inflation Reduction Act. I can't name a single one of them who thinks it reduced inflation. I think there's like near unanimous agreement that that was like a marketing exercise. Yeah, a good one, maybe. But yeah, I think...

So I don't know. I know a lot of people who are very enthusiastic about the Inflation Reduction Act. I can't name a single one of them who thinks it reduced inflation. I think there's like near unanimous agreement that that was like a marketing exercise. Yeah, a good one, maybe. But yeah, I think...

The core of my critique of Biden is his handling of the Build Back Better process, that this was his big initiative domestically in the first two years. He had a congressional majority. It was like the two years when Obama passed Obamacare or George W. Bush passed the Bush tax cuts, Trump passed the Trump tax cuts.

The core of my critique of Biden is his handling of the Build Back Better process, that this was his big initiative domestically in the first two years. He had a congressional majority. It was like the two years when Obama passed Obamacare or George W. Bush passed the Bush tax cuts, Trump passed the Trump tax cuts.

The core of my critique of Biden is his handling of the Build Back Better process, that this was his big initiative domestically in the first two years. He had a congressional majority. It was like the two years when Obama passed Obamacare or George W. Bush passed the Bush tax cuts, Trump passed the Trump tax cuts.

It was this window that presidents often get where Congress is on their side and they can pass something big domestically. I think the big error of Biden is that Build Back Better from the beginning was not one thing. It was a hodgepodge of a lot of different things.

It was this window that presidents often get where Congress is on their side and they can pass something big domestically. I think the big error of Biden is that Build Back Better from the beginning was not one thing. It was a hodgepodge of a lot of different things.

It was this window that presidents often get where Congress is on their side and they can pass something big domestically. I think the big error of Biden is that Build Back Better from the beginning was not one thing. It was a hodgepodge of a lot of different things.

Nearly every Democratic priority. And when it became clear that they could not do all of those things just politically, that they didn't have the votes to pass everything they wanted... they never decisively made a choice to do one of them and to do it well.