Biden claims progressives don't like him because he doesn't embrace 'a socialist agenda'
Biden faces pressure to embrace Green New Deal, other progressive policies
By Sam Dorman | Fox News
President Biden opened up about his conflict with the more progressive side of the Democratic Party, arguing in a recent interview that he encounters criticism for not embracing a socialist agenda.
"The progressives don’t like me because I’m not prepared to take on what I would say and they would say is a socialist agenda," Biden told The New York Times this week.
Columnist David Brooks wrote that Biden was suspicious of generous college debt forgiveness and that people "who take the big risks to generate wealth should reap the big rewards."
Those comments come as Biden faces pressure from within his party to adopt sweeping environmental and economic policies like the Green New Deal.
Biden does believe in large economic proposals but aligns more with the working class rather than academic and elite strains of the Democratic Party, Brooks wrote.
"The risk is not trying to go big," Biden said, according to the Times. "If we stay small, I don’t know how we change our international status and competitive capacity."
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