Biden's reconciliation bill would be a big fucking deal

[babylonsister]

Biden’s reconciliation bill would be a big fucking deal
Democrats’ massive spending plan, explained.
By Andrew [e-mail] Aug 9, 2021, 11:30am EDT


Democrats are moving ahead on what could be the most consequential piece of domestic policy legislation in decades, and the planned centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s first-term agenda.

This coming megabill doesn’t yet have a name. It hasn’t technically been written. But on Monday, Senate Democrats released their current plan for what to put in it — and, well, it’s a whole lot.

Low-income families would get what’s effectively a “child allowance” — money to help raise kids — for longer, via an expanded child tax credit. Seniors on Medicare would get new dental, vision, and hearing benefits, as well as lower prescription drug prices. The coming bill would create new programs for universal pre-K, subsidized child care, free community college, and paid family leave. Some unauthorized immigrants would be able to get green cards. Then there’s major spending on clean energy, housing affordability, and much more.

It would be “the most consequential piece of legislation passed since the Great Depression,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said last month. In spending terms, it would be as much as $3.5 trillion — about triple the size of Obamacare, the law that then-vice president Biden famously called “a big fucking deal.”

The sheer range of issues the bill will cover is dizzying: It’s practically everything in Democrats’ domestic policy agenda that Senate rules would permit them to pass without any Republican support, via the special, filibuster-proof budget reconciliation process.

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https://www.vox.com/22577374/reconciliation-bill-biden-medicare-climate

[dweller]

1. K&R !

Just because you know you want to hear your inner Bernie say
‘big fucking deal’

✌🏻

[Mme. Defarge]

2. So, is this why Republican governors

are trying to create chaos with out of control Covid infections with the intent of derailing Biden’s economy successes and wildly popular overall agenda?

[ColinC]

3. No.

It would a triple fucking deal

[questionseverything]

4. I really hope lowering the age of medicare to 60 makes the bill

I want better medical way more than paid family leave