What would a Republican Senate mean for Biden’s economic agenda?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s economic ambitions hinges largely on two Senate runoff elections in Georgia this January.

With a win in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden is president-elect of the United States, but control of the US Senate is yet to be decided.

Whichever party controls the Senate will have significant implications for Biden’s presidential term, either allowing him to push full steam ahead with his own economic agenda or force him to make concessions to get legislation passed in a Republican Senate.

The fate of Biden’s economic ambitions hinges largely on two Senate runoff elections in Georgia this January, as a Republican-controlled Senate wouldn’t bode well for parts of Biden’s proposed economic agenda.

Steps to address the economy are increasingly necessary as America is still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, with millions remaining unemployed and growth in certain sectors of the economy lagging.

While these are all issues — outlined on the Biden/Harris transition website — that could still be addressed in a Joe Biden presidency, even with an otherwise recalcitrant Republican majority in the Senate, many Democrats’ hopes about…