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鈥楧emocrats aiming for a 21st Century FDR moment鈥�
US President Joe Biden鈥檚 agenda will see a trillion dollars invested in infrastructure projects, benefiting an enormous number of Americans, the Democrat congressman for New York, Ritchie Torres, has said.
This is 鈥渓arger than anything that has been done in recent historical memory in the United States,鈥� he told 91热爆 Hardtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur.
Elected during the Great Depression, US President Franklin D Roosevelt - often known as FDR - brought in a New Deal, which included a series of sweeping financial reforms and infrastructure projects. The Great Depression began in 1929 and ended in 1941.
