... well as the Build Back Better Act, that it's going to help with inflation, that it's going to help bring costs down. Now, the vast majority of experts, they agree that those bills will likely bring inflation down in the long term, but the short term is the ...
... the president's agenda. It's called the Build Back Better Act. That's his whole campaign slogan. And he ran on everything that is in that bill. And if a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate cannot pass -- get the Democratic presidents agenda passed, then what's their argument ...
... and addressing systemic inequalities Biden says are “laid bare” by the nation’s ongoing reckoning with racism. “What’s going on here, we need to build back, not just to where we were but build back better than we’ve ever been,” Biden told the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ...
... I said, they really are -- this is a once-in-a-lifetime injection of funds into solving this problem. We estimate that the resources of Build Back Better, should that prevail, could house 80,000 households. So, that's quite a big dent. Judy Woodruff: I want to come back ...
... The wild thing to think about is, if they hadn't tried for this big ambitious Build Back Better bill, and they had just taken the wins they had, if they -- if President Biden and Congress, Democrats in Congress, had just passed the American Rescue Plan and the bipartisan infrastructure ...
... that Biden's broader proposal might register more with voters. "There is so much in Build Back Better that people are going to actually feel in their daily lives," Craig said. "Build Back Better is going to change the way people can function in their daily lives, and that it ...
... about when we think the debt ceiling will be reached. And on top of all of this, Democrats are trying to pass what would be the largest single spending bill in American history, the Build Back Better Act. So it is an important, pivotal and very intense time. Judy Woodruff ...
... It's not as impressive as, say, Build Back Better, the $2 trillion bill that the president wanted to get done a year ago, but in a Washington where nothing seems to be able to get done on these -- quote, unquote -- "big-picture items," to have the Inflation Reduction Act ...
... in the Senate. But the most coherent message among Democrats right now just seems to be, look, if you want these rights protected, show up in November and vote. Is that fair? Annie Linskey: I think that's certainly what's coming from the top of the party. I think ...
Lisa Desjardins: Well, there's a lot of hopefulness today that there wasn't there yesterday. Let me go through really quickly what's going to happen now. As we recorded, Senator Schumer has a plan. He's going to build -- bring Build Back Better before the full Senate. It ...
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