President Biden marked his first year in office on a downbeat note: low approval ratings, a defeat of the Democrats’ voting rights bill in the Senate, and the Build Back Better Bill stalled. But perhaps Biden's biggest political concern is how he fares within his own party. For a ...
... the Build Back Better legislative agenda, after Senator Joe Manchin said he would not support the bill in its current form. Since Republicans have opposed the legislation from the start, Democrats will have to decide among themselves what parts of the Build Back Better plan can survive. Joining us now ...
... bill, the Build Back Better Biden agenda. We sometimes call it reconciliation, because that's how they plan to pass it, using just 50 votes in the U.S. Senate. So what's happened is, progressives have said, we will not support that infrastructure bill in the House until the ...
... worldwide donors' convention pledged billions for Haiti, and promised to complete a daunting task: representatives of donor nations pledged to take guidance from Haitian leaders in coordinating relief spending, prevent corruption, and in the words of Bill Clinton, "Build back better." Lots of money has flowed south, along with thousands ...
... think they can get through it. But the bottom line here, Judy, is, I think the Build Back Better bill will not make it to the Senate floor for at least two weeks. In that time, we will have a lot of time to look at what's in it ...
Weighing in at 2,135 pages, the Build Back Better bill drafted by the House is a heavyweight. Many of its historic proposals are well known and discussed: universal pre-K, an overhaul of child care, sweeping climate change and renewable energy programs, expanded health care subsidies, and lower costs ...
... to be enough agreements reached on the specifics of what will go into the Build Back Better Act, which is the larger bill -- that's the partisan bill -- and that the moderates will -- that the progressives will say, OK, we're confident enough that we can support the infrastructure bill ...
... has to be lower, and that that's what's -- the battle is going on in terms of the negotiations on this bill. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, was on the with the "Pod Save America" guys, who she worked with during the Obama administration. And the key ...
Lisa Desjardins: So let's talk about the other piece, the part that you now see as unlinked, the Build Back Better bill. Right now, it's about $3.5 trillion. Could you ever support a bill that size? Or what do you think is right? Rep. Kurt Schrader: Well ...
... going to get to why, but let me remind people what's at stake here in these two bills. First of all, the Build Back Better bill, as we have been describing it, includes universal pre-K, child care, housing, also includes major climate legislation, health provisions. The infrastructure bill ...
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