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What Went Down In The Third Democratic Debate
Biden’s been asked that exact same question before about Obama’s record on deportations, and I’m surprised he didn’t have a more direct answer.
Jorge Ramos points out that the Obama administration deported more people than any other administration. But I wonder how that statistic changes if you adjust for total population (there are more people in the U.S. today than in, say, 1950) and time (Obama had eight years; Trump has had two and a half so far).
Well, as Amelia wrote earlier, Sanders’ proposal of budget reconciliation is also pretty revolutionary. As Ezra Klein wrote at Vox, “What Sanders is saying is that he will command his vice president to ignore the parliamentarian’s advice and simply rule that anything he wants to do is permissible under reconciliation.”