Democrats aren’t spending too much money. But are they spending it well?

So they need to take this fleeting opportunity to make good on every one of their priorities — climate change, child care, higher education, health care, immigration. (That last one was too much even for the Senate parliamentarian, who ruled that it can’t possibly be included in what is ostensibly a budget bill.) In their minds, this is would be a modern New Deal — a generational set of sweeping reforms that will touch virtually all sectors of society.