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US Democratic trifecta would see wide policy changes

Content type:: Expert Briefings
Location:: UNITED STATES
Keywords associated with this article:: Geographic: United States NA

Topical: politics election government party policy economy industry social climate environment ethnic fiscal foreign investment foreign policy foreign trade health infrastructure judicial welfare
ISSN:: 2633-304X
Citation:: Oxford Analytica (2020), "US Democratic trifecta would see wide policy changes", Expert Briefings.
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB256876

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Significance

If this result comes to pass (a ‘trifecta’) it would dramatically increase Biden's latitude to govern in his first two years in office.

Impacts

Democrats would invest heavily in infrastructure and welfare programmes, to mitigate COVID-related economic losses.
Congress will reassert some of its oversight prerogatives and better define certain executive powers they feel Trump abused.
A Biden administration would re-enter the Paris climate accords and 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
Under a Democratic trifecta, Republicans would have scope to frustrate Biden via Senate filibuster.

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