Gov’t Mule? Your Tax Dollars Are At Work, But Slowly

Billions in Biden’s first rescue package have yet to reach people.

Micah Sifry
5 min readJan 20, 2022

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President Biden signing the American Rescue Plan into law, March 11, 2021. “Help is here,” he said. Well, kinda.

For all the attention devoted to President Biden’s ambitious domestic agenda — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) that passed back in March 2021, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure act passed in November, and the currently stalled Build Back…

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Micah Sifry

Co-founder Civic Hall. Publisher of The Connector newsletter (theconnector.substack.com)