How to Use New Deal in a Sentence

New Deal

noun
  • The climate crisis presents an opportunity for a jobs program on the scale that the U.S. hasn’t seen since the New Deal.
    Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The campaign declined to make Harris available for an interview about her position on the filibuster and the Green New Deal.
    Alex Thompson, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • And her agenda is the Green New Deal and Medicare for all.
    CBS News, 28 July 2024
  • Much of the New Deal was made possible by the commerce clause.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • President Biden’s New Deal for Africa is a key pillar of this.
    Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • With that, Flanagan became the head of a major New Deal program.
    Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Ryan is pitching tax cuts and ditching anything nearing the Green New Deal.
    Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • One goal of the Gray New Deal is to make sure that a middle-class worker can remain a middle-class retiree.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The New Deal led to the biggest burst of public pools in American history.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • As a result, the researchers had to correct for policy changes in the New Deal that might have extended the lives of children born in the 1930s.
    Oliver Staley, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Biden passed the largest investment in infrastructure since The New Deal.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • Those were fine plans, endorsed by most New Deal economists.
    Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • All four were architects of the New Deal and members of Roosevelt’s inner circle.
    Scott Borchert, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Ever since the New Deal’s historic launch in 1933, Republicans have tried to turn the clock back to prehistoric times.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Captains of capital were still outraged and launched a war to roll back New Deal reforms, arguably up until the present day.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Both issues can be resolved by implementing the Green New Deal.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
  • The Democratic majorities of the Roosevelt era were founded on support for or opposition to the programs of the New Deal.
    Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Business leaders, who also feared a downturn, were praying that the New Deal would not continue.
    Amity Shlaes, National Review, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The Green New Deal is tougher to poll, but potentially more problematic for Harris.
    Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • And then of course, 1963 is the year that Kennedy goes on that media blitz around civil rights, firmly associating his party, which is the party of the New Deal, with civil rights.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But Reagan’s antigovernment politics and policies went much further than rolling back the New Deal.
    Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 25 July 2023
  • Biden passed the largest investment in infrastructure since the New Deal, and the largest investment in green energy ever.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
  • But most of its farms were created by a New Deal campaign to relocate struggling farmers from the Upper Midwest.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Green New Deal was a 2019 proposal Democrats backed to curb climate change and protect the environment; the resolution did not become law.
    Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Inside the tower there are 27 murals, created by more than 20 artists, under the sponsorship of Roosevelt’s New Deal.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But millennials and Gen Zers have lived under the cloud of the great New Deal program’s impending demise essentially all their lives.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • On the far right, despite taking credit for fossil-fuel investments in their states, Republicans have assailed the act as the Green New Deal.
    Joe Manchin, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2023
  • During the New Deal, a federal agency was created to help manage and direct these kinds of large-scale changes in infrastructure and land use.
    Hillary Angelo, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • The term redlining is derived from a federal program, started in the New Deal, that was intended to expand access to mortgages and boost home ownership in the US.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2022
  • His dream was always of a new New Deal that would go further than the original one had, lifting all boats not by some rising tide of affluence but by giving everyone the same ship and the same sail.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023

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