Politics & Power Quote by Valerie Jarrett

A policy pitch like this is engineered to sound like immediate relief and long-term reinvention at the same time. Jarrett leads with “money in the pockets,” an intimate, kitchen-table image that translates a sprawling federal bill into a tactile promise: your paycheck, your rent, your groceries. It’s populist language with managerial intent - reassurance wrapped in a stimulus package.

Then comes the big-number rhetoric: “create and save millions of new jobs.” The pairing is doing quiet work. “Create” flatters the future; “save” inoculates against the accusation that government spending is speculative. Even if you don’t buy the optimism, you’re invited to accept the defensive logic: doing nothing costs jobs, too.

The real subtext sits in the list of “crucial areas.” Health care, education, energy independence, infrastructure - this is a values map disguised as budgeting. Each item is a coalition signal: labor hears jobs, progressives hear social investment, national security voters hear “independence,” business hears “infrastructure.” “New” appears twice, a deliberate attempt to frame government action as modernization rather than bureaucracy.

Context matters: Jarrett was a central Obama-world operator during the post-2008 collapse, when stimulus spending wasn’t just economics but a narrative battle over what government is for. The sentence tries to collapse that debate into inevitability - “will put,” “will…create,” “will invest” - projecting certainty in a moment defined by volatility. It’s persuasion by confidence: if the plan sounds comprehensive enough, skepticism starts to feel like pessimism.