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The Economic Levers Democrats Will Try to Pull Without Trump

November 5, 2026 · 15 min

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The Blue Wave might have been a rebuke of Trump and his economy, but Democrats have limited options to tackle affordability without him.

On today’s Big Take podcast, PIMCO’s Head of Public Policy Libby Cantrill joins host Sarah Holder to discuss how the economic issues Democrats campaigned on could translate into policy and the compromises and clashes that may lie ahead.

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Host: Sarah Holder; Guest: Libby Cantrill; Produced by Julia Press and David Fox; Edited by Naomi Shavin; Engineering by Emma Munger.

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