I think what Biden was trying to avoid

was the eight years of economic bashing that Obama received from the GOP because he didn't fix the shitshow that he inherited from them fast enough.

In the rearview mirror, the ARP likely wasn't need at the scale it was passed on, but we were just on the cusp of Covid vaccine availability, so, did we really know? He went with better safe than sorry. I can live with that.

And I do think that some of the quick reduction in unemployment and consumer spending that stimulated GDP growth came along with the uptick in inflation.