Jacobin editor Matt Karp joined Hill.TV’s “Rising” on Tuesday to discuss President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus and relief package from a left-leaning perspective, offering it a mixed review.
Speaking with co-hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, Karp said that while the bill was not a liberal wish-list as Republicans and some in the media have suggested, it did represent a significant shift from the relief efforts pursued by the Obama administration following the 2008 crash.
“There’s a real difference between a one-year budget and structural change,” Karp said. “I’m a 2016 Berniecrat. We want $15…minimum wage, we want Medicare-for-all, we want deep changes in the labor law that allow the working class to actually organize and gain, claw back some power from this outrageous billionaire class that dominates our society and our economy. This bill doesn’t do any of that.”
What it does represent, Karp continued, is the U.S.’s escape from “the age of austerity,” saying leftists should acknowledge “that that’s real, and that’s good.”
Watch more of his interview above.
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