Congressional Democrats are held a news conference Wednesday addressing climate change. Watch the conference in the video player above. Climate change has been at the center of debate between moderate and progressive Democrats as they negotiate a spending plan. Scaling down his "build back better" plans, President Joe Biden on ...
... the other side of the pandemic. And that is the focus of the president and the vice president at this time. We do know that, in Build Back Better, there is a better part of that. And we know that the United States -- and this is what Larry Summers was ...
She said she fully understands the role the Interior Department must play in Biden's “build back better” plan for infrastructure and clean energy and said she will seek to protect natural resources for future generations “so that we can continue to work, live, hunt, fish, and pray among them ...
... S. economy but said any structural reforms depend first on reining in the coronavirus pandemic. Watch in the video player above. “Once we shut down the virus and deliver economic relief to workers and businesses, then we can start to build back better than before," Biden said during remarks in ...
... passing the two major pieces of legislation that Democrats passed with Democratic votes alone, these big spending bills, one of which is a major environmental bill, even though it's called the Inflation Reduction Act. And so, as the year went on, there were -- certainly, Build Back Better didn't ...
... immigrants crossing the Southwest border. "Yeah, I want to go back," he said in mocking reference to the "Build Back Better" name Biden uses for the legislation. "I have no idea," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a reporter as she entered the Capitol Friday when asked what McCarthy had achieved ...
... been tainted by the lack of enforcement and fears of deportation and retaliation. Partnering with trusted organizations could help OSHA strengthen its trust, she added. The announcement mentions urging Congress to pass funding bills for the Build Back Better plan, and notes that there are billions of dollars in funding ...
... There's the 15 percent corporate minimum tax that is in there. There are all sorts of incentives and rebates and things aimed at clean energy. So it's not Build Back Better. It's not the big transformative bill that the president wanted at the beginning of his term.
... 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 ...
... which has been sort of clear, but was crystallized by last week, is that Democrats have to figure out how to agree amongst themselves on the whole thing, the big bipartisan -- the Build Back Better and the bipartisan infrastructure plan. They have to agree on all of it, and they ...
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