FEATURING LINDSAY KOSHGARIAN – President Joe Biden is moving full steam ahead with a political agenda that has split the difference between his ambitious campaign platform and his centrist Democratic Party roots. Promoting an ambitious $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan, the President is facing stiff opposition from the GOP and even some conservative members of his own party. But polling data shows he could be even bolder as the American people are ready for big government investment in updating our failing infrastructure in a way that creates new, well-paid and secure jobs. According to my guest, the Pentagon and wealthy tax cheats alone account for about the same cost as the President’s proposal.  

Read her latest piece for Truthout called Pentagon and Tax Cheats Already Cost Taxpayers Far More Than Biden’s Job Plan.

Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director  for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.