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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like neither bill will survive.[/quote]

Infrastructure would if they would unshackle it from that [b]bloated[/b] Build Back Better bill.

Its already done the hard part of passing the Senate. The House is a rubber-stamp and they already have GOP support anyway.[/quote]

What is bloated about it? It is $3.5T over 10 Years that is generally revenue neutral, so it is drop in the bucket compared to the unfunded 2017 tax cuts, which have ballooned our debt by $8T.[/quote]

[b]Too much shackled to actual Infrastructure that no one wants. Including $1.8 Trillion that they haven't even explained what they want to do with. They've had 8 months, stop hanging us up.

You cut these three things, its $2.6 trillion in expenditures gone, and a lean $900 billion 'Build Back Better' proposal which still tackles environmental concerns and clean energy. Which is INFRASTRUCTURE. [/b]

$1.8 trillion for the Finance Committee. This part of the bill is for investments in working families, the elderly, and the environment. It includes a tax cut for Americans making less than $400,000 a year, lowering the price of prescription drugs, and ensuring the wealthy and large corporations pay their fair share of taxes.

$726 billion for the Health, Labor, Education, and Pensions Committee. This addresses universal pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, childcare for working families, tuition-free community college, funding for historically black colleges and universities, and an expansion of the Pell Grant for higher education.

$107 billion for the Judiciary Committee. These funds address establishing "lawful permanent status for qualified immigrants."

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Finally, some common sense. We're already paying $300 per child every month to every family making $400,000 and under in this country. NO MORE.

[i]Late last week Biden held marathon meetings with nearly two dozen progressive and moderate lawmakers to get his agenda passed.

He's now considering limits to tuition-free community college and universal childcare to cut down the massive, progressive-backed $3.5 trillion package in a bid to pacify moderates and spending hawks.

The White House and Democratic leaders are weighing attaching or strengthening income caps to a number of key agenda items, according to two officials familiar with the discussions. [/i][/quote]

Then they arent paying attention to the looming crisis with childcare and childcare facilities. People are flocking from childcare positions because they are underpaid and overworked. Rural communities are hit even harder.

Tuition-free community college can be pulled back a little with emphasis put only on jobs that need a lot of workers - trade jobs, early education, nursing etc. Universal pre-K (3 and 4) is not something that should be given up. [/quote]

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