President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders have pushed for more government spending after a string of news that showed the economic recovery was slowing.
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President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders have pushed for more government spending after a string of news that showed the economic recovery was slowing. Democrats have pushed trillions of dollars worth of new government programs as jobs growth has slowed, consumer prices rise and a large labor shortage continues to hit much of the country. In March, Biden signed the partisan $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and has since proposed a $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan and a $1.8 trillion families plan. “[The American Rescue Plan] got us back to where we were. But that’s not nearly enough,” Biden said during remarks responding to the dismal April jobs report Friday. “We have to build back better.” “That’s why we need the American Jobs Plan I proposed: to put us in a position where we can build back better, to reclaim our position as the leading and most innovative nation in the world, and win the future — the 21st century,” he said. The U.S. economy added just 266,000 jobs last month after economists predicted it would add a million. The Chamber of Commerce and small business advocacy groups blamed the meager report on continued weekly $300 unemployment benefit bonus payments included in the American Rescue Plan. Republican-majority states, including Alabama, Montana and South Carolina, promised to soon withdraw from the federal unemployment program, which they argued incentivized people not to look for jobs. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said the $300 weekly benefit was “contributing to a labor shortage.
