Clinton Administrations - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
Clinton took office in 1993 arguing that the nation needed dramatic change to undo the policies of 30 years of deficit spending. He argued that the nation needed to reverse an economic process that allowed a small percentage of the U.S. population to grow very rich while the middle and working classes saw their wages diminish and their prospects dim. The 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, however, ensured that Clinton's activist program, already crumbling under the pressures of the existing Congress, would come to a standstill. For the rest of Clinton's presidency, the Republicans sought to undo the legacy of Democratic Congresses dating from the New Deal and the 1960s. Clinton's vision of new Democratic activism was instead redirected into the project of defending and reforming the social programs of his predecessors (See also, Clinton and Congress).
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