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  • Key miscalculations that impacted inflation, and how Biden's spending bill could affect it

    Key miscalculations that impacted inflation, and how Biden's spending bill could affect it

    Nov 16, 2021 11:45 PM EDT

    ... or the other. Judy Woodruff: Before I ask you about the Federal Reserve, I do want to ask you about that -- another question about that Build Back Better bill. You said it's paid for. But if the Congressional Budget Office comes out in coming days with a so called ...

  • Manchin reflects on Senate career and outlines his vision of leadership in 'Dead Center'

    Manchin reflects on Senate career and outlines his vision of leadership in 'Dead Center'

    Sep 16, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... wanted to do with the BBB bill... Geoff Bennett: Build Back Better, that was... Fmr. Sen. Joe Manchin: Build Back Better was Joe... Geoff Bennett: ... the $3.5 trillion... Fmr. Sen. Joe Manchin: They said it was $6 trillion, and then they said it was 3.5. After -- just in ...

  • WATCH: Biden gives remarks on 58th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma

    WATCH: Biden gives remarks on 58th anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma

    Mar 05, 2023 07:47 PM EDT

    ... of America,” Biden said. The images of the police violence sparked outrage across the country. Days later, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. led what became known as the “Turnaround Tuesday” march, in which marchers approached a wall of police at the bridge and prayed before turning back. President ...

  • Voter concerns for inflation go up while COVID-19 worries come down, says AP-NORC poll

    Voter concerns for inflation go up while COVID-19 worries come down, says AP-NORC poll

    Jan 10, 2022 05:15 PM EDT

    ... Campaign Committee, said the key to Democrats' 2022 success is easing COVID-19 fears — but also delivering tangible policy results. That includes passing Biden's "Build Back Better," the massive social spending bill that remains stalled in the Senate. "I don't think we're going to win an election ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on bipartisan infrastructure bill, lessons from Virginia

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on bipartisan infrastructure bill, lessons from Virginia

    Nov 08, 2021 11:25 PM EDT

    ... sign on. That said, many members of the Progressive Caucus ultimately did vote for this bill, knowing that it would decouple it from the Build Back Better, the social safety net bill. Progressives had tried to have them tied together because they didn't trust the moderates to support the ...

  • WATCH: Biden promotes investments in child care to help working families

    WATCH: Biden promotes investments in child care to help working families

    Oct 15, 2021 04:18 PM EDT

    ... to $2 trillion. The fate of that legislation, branded “Build Back Better" by Biden, is also holding up a more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate this summer. House progressives are balking at supporting that bill until agreement is reached on a path forward on the ...

  • Paid family leave, billionaire tax likely cut from spending bill over Manchin opposition

    Paid family leave, billionaire tax likely cut from spending bill over Manchin opposition

    Oct 27, 2021 10:55 PM EDT

    ... House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she wrote a letter to lawmakers today saying that tomorrow the House Rules Committee is going to hold a hearing on what she's calling the Build Back Better Act. So that is Nancy Pelosi really, in some ways, trying to telegraph the urgency that lawmakers ...

  • What Sen. Joe Manchin's rejection of new spending means for the climate change fight

    What Sen. Joe Manchin's rejection of new spending means for the climate change fight

    Jul 15, 2022 10:50 PM EDT

    ... this is not the massive Build Back Better. But, still, the things that he said no to were substantive, some of the most major steps the federal government might have taken on climate change. What was it that got dropped out? Lisa Desjardins: Right. So, in the fall, we lost ...

  • IMF projects slower growth for world economy as inflation rises

    IMF projects slower growth for world economy as inflation rises

    Jan 25, 2022 05:30 PM EDT

    ... consumers? The IMF slashed the growth forecast for the United States — world's largest economy — to 4% from the 5.2% it predicted in October. The agency no longer expects any economic stimulus from President Joe Biden's Build Back Better social policy bill, which has stalled in Congress. The ...

  • Has Biden delivered on climate promises? Analyzing his first year in office

    Has Biden delivered on climate promises? Analyzing his first year in office

    Jan 19, 2022 11:35 PM EDT

    ... see through his climate agenda. He's going to need Congress to move forward on the Build Back Better plan. He's going to need the courts not to get in his way. And he's going to need to do it quickly, because Republicans have shown little interest in ...

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