The White House and allies fired back at longtime party economist Larry Summers Friday for suggesting that their plans for pandemic relief were too aggressive, in a sign of Democrats’ commitment to big spending.

“The one thing we learned is we can’t do too much here,” President Biden said at the White House. “We can do too little. We can do too little and sputter.”

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